i followed the instructions to duplicate the slide and cannot
there is no option in the layout gallery, to Duplicate Selected Slides.
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I have a ppt presentation with perfectly working transitions.
If I insert a "go back to the first slide" button in the last slide, when I
use it the first slide is shown and nothing else happens (transitions are not
applied anymore).

I noticed that when you apply exit effect to an object, the object is
just hidden, that is it still occupies spaces.
So, I want to know if there's a method to let the exited object give
out the space that it occupies, so that other object appear normals as

I created a PP presentation.  Certain slides included inserted pictures.  
After reviewing PP, file was saved & closed normally.  Next day, (upon
opening) I noticed several slides had a big red X where the picture used to
be.  Why?  Slide-by-slide, I re-inserted the picture & ...

I would like to create a slide with 20-30 rectangles (names of categories of
the presentation). These rectangles would disappear when clicked on, such
that audience goes through the material in the sequence they wish.
How can I do this in PPoint 2003 or 2007?

I have a folder with 100 JPGS.  I want them each on a DIFFERENT powerpoint
slide.
I want to read them all in, in one shot.  ALSO!!! I want them AUTO scaled to
fit the powerpoint slide.  PLEASE do not guess at what I am trying to do and

I have used PowerPoint several times before.
I have been elected to create my daughter's graduation from elelmentary
school  (fifth grade - 11 years old) powerpoint slide show for parents.
I want the slide background to be fun with music that I have downloaded from

All of a sudden, all the white font that I had chosen a shadow for changed
to a white shadow.  Previously it was either black or grey and against a
dark background, it really stood out.  Now all of my font has a white shadow
and it makes it looky blury - like you're seeing 2 ...

I have pp 2003 and I would like to add time to the first slide of my show -
I know how to add time by going to insert- etc - but this time will remain
the same if I play presentation few hours later.
I am looking for the time display which will synchronize with the PC clock.

I'm using PowerPoint 2007. I insert a movie into a slide and want to send it
via email. When it arrives to its destination, the movie does not play in
slide show. I have saved and sent the file in pptx & ppxs and it doesn't work.

I am using powerpoint 2007.
I launched 2 slide shows on 2 different monitor, but found out that only one
remains active, the other slide show freezed.
Any idea if powerpoint 2007 could afford 2 instance of slide shows running

My 2nd graders each made a 2003 PowerPoint slide of themselves at school.  
When I went to import them into my 2007 PP presentation at home, the
backgrounds they chose in slide design no longer existed.  (For example, one
girl loves acting, so she chose the "curtain call" ...

Hello all ...
I am trying to insert an mp3 file . But it seems to be linked on the file
in my drive.
then it does not play on a different pc, because it does not have the file

When I copy and paste an object on a slide (that is I select, Ctrl-C,
Ctrl-V) the copied object appears always displaced a given amount with
respect to the source. Can I control this displacement. I actually want to
set this displacement to zero.

I have created a PowerPoint presentation with approx 96 slides with
transitions set to music. Now I have to get it from my laptop onto a CD so it
can play through a projector onto a large screen in a high school auditorium
during five dance recitals. I don't know what the ...