Where would be the most effective place to bring bugs to the attention of
Microsoft? We're finding a LOT after only a week of use.
In addition, is there somewhere to report annoyances that are not actually
bugs (i.e., works as intended but not as it SHOULD?

I have a PPT file that has notes for most of the slides. However, those notes
don't always show correctly between the three different views: Notes View,
Presenter View, & Normal (tri-pane) View. In most of the slides, the notes
can be viewed in Notes View, but not the other two ...

Hi, I've been asked to change the colors in some shapes from bright red,
yellow and green to lighter colors. I am about to change them one by one but
this is a 150 slide presentation with over 1000 shapes and this will take
hours to do. Is there a way to define a format and ...

Client is using PPT 2003. When she inserts an eps image, she can see the
selection handles around the image but can not see the image. How can we make
the image visible?

I really need to convert a Powerpoint presentation in Notes Page format into
PDF but cannot seem to be able to do this.  As we can only access Adobe 7 via
Citrix Remnote neighbourhood we do not have Adobe listed as a printer within
Powerpoint.  Any ways around it?  I can go to ...

OK,  Here is my first attempt to solve the problem I posted a couple days
back.  It is functional but I am sure it is not as elegant as it could be,
because I am just a code hacker.  My thanks to Steve Rindsberg and David
Marcovitz for setting me down the path.

I was fooling aorund and testing some stuff, and I inserted a new layout into
the slide master.  Now I'd like to get rid of it, but I don't see any way to
do it.  If I right-click a standard layout, I can delete/cut it, but when I
right-click the one I inserted, cut is disabled.

I have created a 100+ slide show in PPT.  It has several slides that show a
graphic which I created in PPT which has multiple Boxes with Text Boxes
imbedded and grouped in the box.  It is basically a flow chart and I animate
to unfold the entire chart and animate certain boxes ...

I have a bit map that looks very clear when I enlarge it on the screen, but
when I use the animated shrink/grow (Grow), it's look like the anlargement
of a low-res thumbnail.  It looks terrible.  Is there a way to work around
this.  I'm wanting the image to grow to about 500% ...

I downloaded a design template from Microsoft. When viewing the presentation
in color, it appears on all slides. When you switch view to grayscale or
attempt to print in B&W, the design dissapears from all pages except the 1st.
Omit background is not selected on these slides.

I'm having a really annoying problem in PowerPoint 2003. I can edit the color
scheme(s) and set the text shadows to black. When I apply a text shadow to
white text, the shadow remains black. But if I change either all of the text
or just a portion to another color, yellow for ...

My wife has produce a 130 MB power point file which she wants to
transfer via email - which is not possible of course!
What I don't understand is, why is this file so big?? There are just
about 10 jpegs in it, but the size of each is 200k maximum! What is in

I imported a design template. It shows on all pages of the presentation;
however, when I go to print it or print preview, it only shos on the 1st
page. Omit background is not selected on those slides.

I am piecing together a slide show animation in Powerpoint 2007 from several
departments to make a single powerpoint.
All of the departments used different styles and animations in their
powepoints. I cannot seem to figure out how to turn off all of the animations

Does any one know how i can get the shape name or text inside the
shape when the user click on it and i active a macro?
i need to know that on the macro itself...
i have few shapes with the same macro on them