I have a user who is experiencing a very strange issue.  When she
double-clicks on a ppt file icon in windows explorer, powepoint 2003
loads and the file opens... but the graphics on the slide master are
not visible on the individual slides.  They print out fine, just can't

I want to create a 'comment' (text box really) for specific objects on a
Powerpoint slide that only appears when the user drags his cursor over that
object.  (In similar fashion to the way that Excel comments work.) Thanks for
any help!

Is there a picture browser that runs along the bottom of PP?  I thought I
saw one once and now can't get it back.  But I may be thinking of another
program that had one.  I want to insert a lot of pictures, one per slide,
and going to Insert, Picture, From File is very tedious.  It ...

I have two animations I'm linking to the PPT file.  I have them housed in a
seperate file from the PPT file, and when I click the link, it can't find the
file.  I am able to browse to the file on my hard drive and fix the problem,
however as I am putting this on a CD for others ...

When we attempt to burn a "Self Starting" Power Point Presentation to a CD,
we get
the "Registry Policy Setting" error message.  How can we fix this problem?

I have a PP presentation with 53 slides each having 2 to 5 links to
Excel spreadsheet charts, graphs and other cells from 6 different
Excel documents.  I update the spreadsheets every month, then update
the links when I open the PP presentation.  Sometimes I get the

I work in the electric utiltiy industry and I am trying to make a visual
display of line-outages for a 5 state region in a PP slide.
I have a spreadsheet that gives the location of the outage, time the line
went out, and time it came back in. What I have done is manually enter ...

Hello~
I have a major presentation to do this week, and this is the first one ever
since I got Office 2007 earlier in the year.
The thing is, the place I'm going to have present it on an older version,

I'm trying to write an MFC program that uses the PowerPoint automation interface.  I'm
having some problems and need to ask a detailed question in terms of the MFC source code.
What's the best newsgroup to use for this?  
                    joe

I try this question again. Powerpoint 2003 English version.
I have a button in a powerpoint presentation (ppt file) which shows
the menubar item File->Print so you get the proportiesview to select
the printer, and his settings, that you want for the printout.

If I apply a design template it overlays what's already in the slides, it
doesn't replace it.

   I wanted to save Author, Company name etc. in the Document Properties
section. When I saved the document (PowerPoint 2007), author  and company
name information disappears, all the other info is saved! And the author
info does not automatically appear in the author window ...

I want to make an outline presentation that a client can operate from a CD
or DVD.
I understand that with my 2003 PowerPoint I may be able to use "Package for
CD" to make this happen.

I have a box shape inserted.  I have a small rectangle on the box (very flat)
that is the lid on the box.  I am using it as a Jack-In-The-Box and I would
like to anchor the lid on one end and have the rest of the lid "open" as it
would on a real box.  Any solutions?

How do I use animation (or any of the programs in PPT) to zoom directly into
an action button I have placed on the slide?  I am trying to zoom into a
specific area of a picture by setting the action button transparent and then
zooming into the button to go to the next slide that ...