Hello people,
I just wanted to know how can I lock a microsoft powerpoint file to avoid
editing.
When I put a password, it ask for a certificate or to install a security

Hello All, I have several versions of PowerPoint on my computer (2000, 2003
and 2007) and since 2007 is installed, it launches 2007 (of course) when a
PPT file is double clicked.
So, how do I get 2003 again to be triggered on a PPT-double click (I tried

Powerpoint 2003
I want to use a group of Option Button Controls (3) on a slide, but I can't
figure out how to read the output of the Option Button Grouping.

Hello All, I have this odd situation - very annoying - that objects and
pictures in PowerPoint 2003 on Vista move a pixel (up or down) when clicked
on and the 'Undo' button actually says 'undo move object' ...but I only
click on it!!??

I am trying to link a Powerpoint slide to a tab in an Excel file.  After
copying the range in Excel, I paste link the range as a Microsoft Excel
Worksheet Object in the Powerpoint slide.  The problem is that not all of the
range is visible on the slide. The range is rather large ...

When I click in the Excel worksheet to open excel and drag the sizing handles
it seems to work.  However, when I click out of excel back to the PowerPoint
slide it appears that my change only expanded the column or row width rather
than expanding the visibility.  It also seems to ...

Powerpoint and Excel do not display color fills or colored text on my screen,
but does show in Preview and when I print. I can reset Powerpoint View to
color, but it will not stay as my default view. As soon as I view slideshow,
the display reverts to grayscale.

I've read the suggested tutorial and tried it about a thousand times, but for
whatever reason, it ain't working for me. I'm using Powerpoint 2007 with
Vista.
Having carefully followed the instructions, I don't know what to do next.

I am a student and need to print power point slides for lecture using
power point 2007. I need for the text to be black on white and would
like to keep the pictures in color. I am looking for a quick and easy
way of reformatting powerpoint presentations that I did not create to

I am a student and have to open a power point file on a network.  2 weeks ago
I was able to edit the powerpoint as I wanted, but all of a sudden I can't
edit them.  What changed?  How can I edit them?

I must use both versions of PPT because of coworker using older version. We
use many text boxes on our slides and continually are nailed by having lines
around them when printing handouts.
I notice that the default is Automatic for grayscale setting. Is there a way

I'm sooo close.
I have a table with two cells per row (and I have many rows), I need to
delete the entire row (to include both cells) of selected rows.  In doing
this I hope the line feed is also deleted so the row above and the row below

Please show me how to export all datasheet in Powerpoint to Excel.
I have a presentation with many graphs created directly in Powerpoint and
now want to learn how to export and save just the raw data in Excel format.
Thank you for your help.

New to office 2007 and Vista (business)
A presentation that I used with no problem with office 2003 on XP gives me
the above pop-up every time.
within the pop up window it states:

In PP2007 there is no longer a title master available. But still the vba
property TitleMaster in the Presentation object exists.
Which of the custom layout object is returned by this property? Are
there any rules? Can I define what custom layout should be represented