I want to open a ppt and extract the text but without ppt actualy
being shown.
I get an error saying there is no presentation open.
What do I do wrong?

Just upgraded to Office 12 (2007).  Now setting invisible color in graphic
(same graphic as always) no longer works.  When attempted, the color to be
made invisible turns white instead of going away as in Office XP.  Is there a
bug fix or some setting I have to make to get this ...

So I have embedded charts in powerpoint(Not linked to excel) and
everytime I need to update them I have to double click the chart and
copy the value from excel.  Is there a way I can write a macro to do
this?

I have a graph in Powerpoint that changes when I when I go into the sheet.
It appears fine when I fist open the program but when I go into the data
sheet the graph changes to one that I have in a differernt powerpoint. I can
not see any types of links?

I want users to be able to Hide a slide while they are seeing it during View
Show.  I'm making educational flashcards and want the user to be able to hide
a card that they know well and, therefore, don't want to view it again
during their current View Show session.

I would like to be able to run office 2000 and office 2007 on my home pc. I
want my office files that are in office 2000 to stay the way they are for 3
more months due to having wedding plans in office 2000. I do not want those
office 2000 files to be changed for 3 months.

I am looking for  conversion software for my 2007 PowerPoint.  I would like
to convert PowerPoint presentations containg wmv. files and mp3. files to a
format that I can burn
to a DVD or web stream.  I have tried the free downloads from Camtasia,

I don't know if there is a bug in a file or what. I received a presentation
from someone - PPT 2003. There are 2 rectangles (in the custom animation pane
they are identified as "Rectangle #). Both rectangles show the animation
effect of Change Fill Color. The odd thing is that ...

I am hyperlinking ppt file names on a ppt slide.  I want each one to open
when I click its name. At the moment I get a warning message before the file
will open - "Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. To protect
your computer only click those hyperlinks from ...

I would like to extract a song from a sent file,?

I would like to get some programming idea for creating a powerpoint slide, as
follows:
1. Creating a button for moving Previous and Next slide.
2. To jump into a particular slide.

Can I send 1 slide from a presentation has an attachment to an email?

After developing a great powerpoint and lots of graphics and text boxes, then
I save my document to either a flash drive (usb) or cd.  When I pull up the
this document on my laptop, my graphics are gone.  I could just scream.
My daughter brought a special powerpoint she made for ...

i have a very important presentation developed in MS power point 2000. but
the system on which i m going to present have MS power point 2003. That
system did not recognize the file with giveing me message 'Microsoft power
point cant not read ''File name and address'' '. Please ...

Does anyone know of ways to assist managing slide collateral in PowerPoint,
or via some tool integrated with PowerPoint.  
We develop many different presentations for different audiences, but
frequently use the same slides.  This means a lot of cut+paste, many