Since I wow'd my work group with the last tip I got here (from John Wilson),
they have said what they would like is to have a menu of different groups of
slides and be able to fill in check boxes for group names and then show just
those slides.  E.g., if I am a realtor, and I get ...

Apologies if this is very basic, but I have never used PowerPoint before and
we all have to start somewhere.
What I want to do is simply create 10 boxes on screen, 5 on left and 5 on
right. When I click on the left ones, they slide off to the left and clicking

When I receive a pps with music, its possible to save the music as a file?

Printing slides uses a lot of paper. I prefer to print the outline view to
use when I am presenting, however I am unable to print the notes that go
along with each slide if I do this.
Is there anyway to include notes when printing only the outline view? I'm

I'm working with PowerPoint 2007/2003 developing in C++.
I've written code to insert text into a PowerPoint presentation. The code
works, but in slide show mode text is always inserted as black. I set the
color property of the text, but it isn't immediately visible.

I have several customized colortheme in PP2007 , I need to retrieve Accent1
color and apply to the backcolor of a lable in a user form.
lblMyLable.BackColor=…  
I can't find a way of doing this ...

Is there a control character of some sort at the end of the Notes Page body
placeholder?
I'm trying to write a macro to remove extraneous paragraph returns (vbCrLf
characters) and I can cycle through a text range and delete all but the last

I have a slide with a chart imported from excel. The slide looks fine and in
print preview it looks okay as well. However, when I try to print only the
right side of the slide prints. It clips most of the left side of the slie
but not all of it. Another user has seven slides with ...

I would like to create - for documentation - a table which shows for each PP
slide with links, the slide # and the full path of the linked file, including
the worksheet. Any way, other than clicking on each linked object and opening
the source file, to accomplish this?

Using PPT 2007.  I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the Office Suite.
It always freezes when I am working with charts (pies, columns, bars).  
There is no animation anywhere in it.  Any help or suggestions on why and how
to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

I have saved a picture into powerpoint.  But the picture has text that I want
to remove.  Is there anyway to delete or hide the text that came over with
the picture?

I only have the powerpoint viewer.
Can't open pps. sent to  me in e-mail.
I get the message converter failed to open the file.
What coverter?

I have inserted an avi video into a powerpoint presentation slide on my
desktop, where it plays fine. However when I try to play it on my laptop in
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (I don't have PP or Office on my laptop) I get a black
box which plays the sound of the embedded avi file but ...

I have inserted a sound file into a slide.
the sound begins when I click on the speaker icon in the slide show mode.
Kindly let me know how do I stop it midway.
Afd

I have a PowerPoint 2007 slideshow operating in XPHome that loops every 5
minutes and uses the "liveweb" addin  to provide two of the slides with
active views from a camera on the web. The camera software on the website
requires a username and password for access and requests ...