There are two questions so when you answer each please put "A#."  (the
question number goes in place of the "#").
Q1.  How can I get a slide to automatically advanc itself with a sound
effect, but if I click, it will advance without a sound effect?

I get presentations with many text boxes for the titles etc. Is there an
easy way to convert these boxes into placeolders (so I can use master slide
etc.)
Thanks for any suggestions

how can i put a text with animation like legends in bottom in all pages

I need to convert some ppt (no animations, no hyperlink,...) into pdf.
I have tried PDFCREATOR (sourceforge) and CUTEPDF. both leave a white
margin around the slides...
Is there any FREE (not shareware) way of creating full scree pdf?

I find it quite useful during long presentations, to show the point in
the overall outline, whenever I begin a new section or subsection.
For example, if the talk is structured like
1. Introduction

I am running PP2000 on a new Vista Operating system.  Recently, my
wife had a colleague send her a PP file via e-mail.  Unexplicably, he
also seemed to have attached a Microsoft Office 2007 Student Edition
along with the file. (Apparently, he is taking classes somewhere and

I would like to create a slide that consists of one big text box, centered on
the slide as a whole.  How can I do this?
When I choose "Format Text Box" and "Position," the only options are to
position the text box a set distance from the top left corner of the slide or

How can I open a web site during a presentation and then switch back and
forth between the website and the presentation?  I don't want to close (ESC)
the presentation and then start it back up again at that slide after viewing.
I can't find a way to minimize a show.

How do I create a circle around text in powerpoint?

How can I:
1) Determine whcih master slide a particular slide points to and
2) consversly, determine which slides point to a particular master?
Thanks

I am trying to export an outline to Word, from PowerPoint 2007. I click the
office button and then send but Word is not a choice.
Any ideas?

When playing back a Windows Media File (video) in PowerPoint 2007 on a
Gateway Tablet PC C-120 loaded with Vista Business, the video plays back with
the incorrect color hue.  When playing the file outside of PowerPoint the
color hue is correct. Any ideas how to solve this ...

Between closing and opening Powerpoint 2007, the 'animation task pane'
usually found on the right of the screen has gone.
Any ideas as to how I can get it back?
I'm new to using powerpoint, I simply do not know how to 'show' or 'hide'

Does anyone know how to run a pp presentation on one computer - have the LCD
projector display the presentation and the laptop show the notes view.

I have been asked to create a 3-D power point is this even possible?
thanks1