I am trying to present a slideshow that is timed (changes slides every 2 or 3
seconds) on a Lenovo x61. Every time I run the slideshow the main powerpoint
screen where you can edit slides pops up, with the slideshow paused in the
background. I either have to click on "resume ...

I am trying to print page numbers on my presentation. I am using PPT 2007.  I
have tried adding the page numbers to the Master Layout, but nothing happens.
When I print, I print the slides, not notes.
Can you print page numbers on slides in PPT 2007?

I have a dual monitor and even if I didn't I have a 20 screen and I would
like to bring up two different PP presentations to view side by side. When I
open the first, and then try and open a second, it overwrites the first. I
can only view one at a time. So I  tried Arrange all, ...

Hi everubody,
In a VBA project I need to add clinets logo to my presentations using VBA
some of them might be over 100 slides . I'm thinking to have a placeholder
for logo on the first page that I can paste the logo and then run a macro to

I want to know where in ppt, the guides are stored. They are accessible from View > Grid and Guides > Display drawing guides on screen. I think they are ppt specific and not powerpoint specific. I need where they are stored as I need to copy that information from source ppt to ...

IS there any difference between textplaceholder,title placeholder and
textbox when we use VBA if yes what are the keywords for each of them in VBA?
( how do I refer to a text box vs. a title placeholder)

How do I retain the slide design of slides created in power point 2003 when I
cut and paste them into Power point 2007?  I like the OLD design better,
worked hard to get it loking just as I wanted.
I do not want to lose ithe design when I cut and paste it into a new

You guys are a lot of help, this is a great source of how to info.  Let me
see if I can stump ya though, because this one has stumped me.   I need to
programmatically find the dimensions of a callout.  The issue I am having is
that I can get the top and left and the height and width ...

I have a simple AddIns for PowerPoint that I wrote and it works fine on
version 2003. However, when trying to run it on 2007 it does not work as
expected.
In order to debug the problem, I removed all the non-relevant code and ended

I set up Master slide. BUT as of middle of presentation I would like a NEW
Master to work for remaining slides only. Every time the second slide master
take over all slides.

I have a friend on a Machintosh and no powerpoint program. Can I somehow save
my animation document so that I can share it with my friend altho they don't
have powerpoint?

Is it possible to save a powerpoint presentation as a pdf in pure
black and white, using the built in pdf writer in Office 2007?
I dont have adobe acrobat.  but i have tried it on a pc that does, and
i notice that even then only the text is black and white but the

This is probably trivial but I can't find the appropriate search criteria to
get the answer. Here is the problem:
I have a small libarary of complex shapes (e.g. fully funtioning virtual
keyboard) and wish to reuse them on selected slides in my interactive

I cannot open presentations created in powerpoint 95 in powerpoint 2007.

I'm working in PPT 2002, SP3, on a Win2k platform.  I had 4 jpg images right
from the small digital camera, and wanted two pictures per page.  I used
Photo Album to dump them into a small PPT show, and deleted the default title
slide.  Four quick slides = 3.3MB file.  Printed ...