Can someone help a computer idiot and give info. (at least where to find it
myself) on how to set up an address book in Microsoft Word to later use the
mail merge feature?  I've been stumbling around for some time now.  Any info.
would be appreciated.  I only saw the option for ...

In XP the program stays small on the bottom of the screen. This happens when
I open the program or click on a presentation.
I've installed the complete office2007 again but it doesn't help.
XP has all the (recent) updates

I recently installed a new true type font, and it works perfectly in all the
programs I have tried it in with the exception of PP2003.  The font is listed
in the drop-down list, but its name is spelled out in Arial followed by a
bunch of unrecognized character boxes.  Any text ...

Why are some (not all) of my slide images blank (white, not even the
background) when printing Notes Pages?  Slides print OK when not printing
Notes Pages.

I am a math teacher that uses PowerPoint daily in my class.  I make
the PowerPoints myself, and I am pretty fast at it. I am being slowed
down by the tedious task of putting custom animations. I used Equation
Editor a lot, and I am fast with it. However, when I want to do a Fly

Can you make word art 3d with actuall depth??? I can get it to rotate and
flip and everything...its jst when i tilt it back it seems to stil b 2d and
look like paper. can u add depth???

Is there a way to group shapes (or really merge shapes) into one new shape,
that when oulined, ONLY outline the new created shape, and NOT all the
individual shapes that made up the new shape?

I have created a powerpoint presentation to be used by others at work. I have
only created ones to be used by myself in the past. I want to make sure that
when it is opened by others that it cannot be accidentally edited, if they
hit the wrong key for example. Some users arent ...

i hope someone can help me

I am fairly new, so my question may be easy. I am using custom animation to
bring in a text box "on click." I would like the text box to be removed on
the next click, so the information on the screen won't be so crowded. For
example I cite a reference and then give an excerpt ...

I have VISTA64 with Office 2007 and am having trouble viewing an AVI movie in
a small window without selecting 'view full screen'. The sould plays just
fine but the video portion is only black (no video).
This laptop has 2 gig memory with the best video card that HP puts in this

I'm writing a macro to take a list of report figure numbers from an Excel
spreadsheet and go through a powerpoint presentation adding the figure number
in a text box on each slide. If the macro has been run previously the text
boxes to hold figure numbers will already exist and ...

help me please, i need to know how to save the slide to a disk so that when
you put the disk in, the slide starts by itself.

I have succesfully reduced the size of my presentation - through otimizing
the slide master, reducing picture sizes etc. - and now the presentation is
down to 204 KB - as opposed to the original 9+ MB.
BUT - still it takes forever to print in color....

Hi.  I am using PowerPoint 2003 and have someone else doing the narration for
me using PowerPoint also.  When they send it back to me, I want to add some
background music to it?  How do I go about adding background music and having
both the narration and background music playing ...