Everytime I start PowerPoint it starts with a default layout with two text
boxes.  The first thing I have to do is delete "click to add a title" and
"click to add a subtitle" boxes.  How do I set it to default to a totally
blank slide?

I recorded sound on each slide of my presentation, but being new to sound
files, I allowed the files to be embedded rather than linked.  I can't seem
to find a way to change the recordings I've made into linked files. Please
help!

I'm currently trying to get a slideshow to constantly update from the
web/into excel/into powerpoint. I have established the link with a web
query in Excel, and then pasted a link into Powerpoint. but it seems
like for one reason or another it stops working. Idealy I want this

I am trying to find a way to prevent reverse veiwing of a powerpoint slide
show, is this possible and how can i do this.  I am using Office 2007.

Or do I have to import an entire Visio diagram?

We have a slide show we will be presenting in conjunction with a demo of an
automated Word template.
What is the best way to jump back & forth between PowerPoint & Word without
losing our place in either application?

I would like to build a presentation with images that are covered under
coloured squares, making the images invisible.
I want to remove squares only as long as the mouse button is pressed, after
releasing the mouse butteon., the picture should be covered again (like in a

I use PowerPoint with some groups of children I work with. I create my
presentations on PowerPoint 2003 and save them as PPS. In the classrooms,
they don't have PowerPoint 2003 so I installed the PowerPoint Viewer.
I would like to start a presentation AND the voice recorder of ...

I am trying to place single and double arrow lines between boxes in a
powepoint 2007 presentation, but they seem to have a mind of their own when
it comes to layout. Is there any way to make an arrow point down, sideways
etc. and control routing so that the elbows do what I want ...

I am trying to create a presentation and need to have the majority of slides
landscape, but need 4 to be portrait.  I know in Word you can insert a page
break, but can't find how to do in PPT.  Please help!

Can anyone help me...I need to know how to start page numbering on the second
slide of a presentation and not the first slide (title slide). Thank you!

I have a project in which I am creating PPT slides which mimic a program
which cannot curently be used. I have successfully recreated everything
except this last module in which the user can select up to four items. The
user clicks Next for the 1st selected item. On the ...

Hi
I am working on a presentation which needs to be uploaded to the internet.
Before I upload it, I need to password protect it so that external users
cannot use it for modification. When I go into the security tab in

How I  can check, shape text is plain text or any special effects
exist, through programmatically?
Should i check is there any glow, any shadow like this...
I believe PresetTextEffect only for WordArt.

I am making an interactive journal for my students. I have drop boxes for
them to add text in a kiosk mode.  I would like to give them the option to
narrate by clicking on an icon of a microphone on the slide while it is in an
active show.