I accidently added a design to my presentation.  The design has overlaid some
of my graphics and text in the Master slide.  How do I reverse the desing?

I have used Powerpoint 2003 extensively previously but with my change
to Vista I also migrated to Powerpoint 2007. My problem here is now
this:
When I want to draw a plain old rectangle (not a textbox) everything

I have a large presentation and have created a number of custom shows which
include selected slides from the overall presentation.
I now need to send soemone a copy of the presentation (or rather the
customised version - ie the version with only certain slides in as per a

Does somebody know how to mute all the sound of a presentation (video, sound
files...)? I want to do that from a CSharp application.

OK, so I was pretty excited to get a new laptop and use a newer version of MS
office.  But, so far, powerpoint 2007 has been a bane to my existence.  I
hate their toolbars and the fact that you can't open a file with an earlier
version of it unless you save it as an earlier ...

I know how to free rotate, but just need to rotate very slightly.  Anyone
know if this is possible?

I'm trying to insert a movie file, or AVI File into powerpoint, nothing too
long just a brief clip. I can insert the clip and see the picture of it in a
still frame but when I go to preview the presentation it shows the first shot
than the screen where the movie is supposed to be ...

I have a presentation and want to show it continuously on a timed basis.
I have selected the loop on the set up slide show and on the annimations tab
delselected advance on mouse click and did select automatically after 5
seconds.

I have Power Point 2003 on both my desktop and my laptop.  When I package for
CD on my desktop the following error comes up "The files cnnot be cop8ied
because no recording device was found"  My laptop has no problems and records
to the CD.  I have a Sony DW-Q28A and I know it ...

Busy with a presentation. I have the option to use a clip art as a back
ground. I have the option to tile the clip art as a back ground (under format
background). Looks lovely until I save it. When I open it after saving it the
slide has turned black behind the tiled clip art. I ...

Hello,
After trying for "too long" with the trial MS Office version, I am about to
give up - is it easily possible to display a powerpoint animation as a flash
display (with setthing size etc.) on a web page (in addition to being seen by

After converting Powerpoint 2003 slides to 2007, the text in the slides is
not inside the text boxes.  It is impossible to move the text back into the
box so I cannot reformat any of the text.  If the text box included outlines
or shading those are staying within the text box, so ...

I want to have the file name automatically update in note page footer.

How can I truely make my PowerPoint presentation uneditable. I know you can
password protect the file however it's simple to get around that. You just
have to open as read only select all the content and paste it into a new
PowerPoint doc. I need the ability for my sales team to ...

so im using powerpoint 2007, and i want to use the scrollbar macro that
powerpoint provides for us; but wen i put it in, it does nothing; wat's the
correct way to use this scroll bar macro? also, i've set up action buttons,
wen clicked upon, that makes things move left and rite ...