A long time ago I think I could copy charts made in Excel into Powerpoint and
completely ungroup each chart and edit them (delete some elements, move
others etc).
When I try this now, it behaves like a non-ungroupable object, although one

I teach PowerPoint classes, and suddenly one day, when everyone opened their
Design Template task pane, all of the previews began to load very slowly - it
now takes approximately 15 minutes for all the thumbnail previews to show.  
You can still apply the template by clicking on ...

Created chart in excel, then open powerpoiint to PASTE SPECIAL |PICTURE
(Enhanced Metafile) - gorgeous! but then I need to shrink to fit my
presentation by dragging the corner handles of the image - now I can't read
it.  How can I make the text sharper to read? Thanks

I have 4 boxes in a circle, and i want them to each go through being blue,
and then return to their original color of white.  So, all 4 boxes are
separate shapes, however they are in a circular overall shape.  Here's how i
want it to work.  Box 1 to turn blue, while the rest are ...

I'm using PP2003. What generates the template file name in the bottom toolbar
(to the right of the slide x of x ) ? I thought it was the name of the .pot
file that was applied to the file using the "Apply a design template." If so,
when I applied a new template to a file, this ...

When I copy text from a Word table I created to a table in Powerpoint, it
creates an indent I don't want. When I select the text and look at the ruler
in Powerpoint, I see no indents/tabs to remove. If I add bullets the text
lines up properly; then if I remove the bullets the ...

I'm trying to design a slide template in PowerPoint 2003 that will appear as
a standard background for every slide in my presentation. I thought I had
managed it but when I have gone to 'new slide' it has only copied the
background colour and not the logos added at the bottom as ...

I googled but didn't find a relevant hit. If you can point me in the right
direction (or help me refine my search terms) I'd greatly appreciate it.
I have a slide with several shapes, each of which has a motion path. The
shapes all end up in a row, then I want to fade in a table ...

 I building dashboard to track couple of projects, is there a template to
build such things?
Thanks,
daMan

I've been searching the web and have found very little info about the
following problem.  This surprises me because I would have thought it to
affect a lot of sites.  Therefore I'm wondering if I missing something
obvious that everyone else knows.

My program will only show 30 slides.  Why?  Is that the limit I can use?
JWH

Please some one tell me, how to insert / embed Flash Movie files in
Powerpoint and Excel with all its animations.

Every time we try to create a Photo Album in PowerPoint 2003, we get the
message "PowerPoint has encountered a problem and needs to close".  We have
uninstalled and installed Office and also ran sfc /scannow with the same
results.  Has anyone encountered this problem?

I have a large slide deck with a number of sub categories. I woudl like to
add a footer to the slides which auto-populates based upon information in the
the title used section titles of each major section.  This is easy to do in
word, using fields, is it possible to do in ...

Hello Group,
(PPT 2003)
I know this has been addressed before, but I'm still confused. I
embedded a wav file into a presentation by going to Slide Show\Slide