My girlfriend does marketing and she wants to put a flash file in her
powerpoint for her boss.  we can do the whole insert a shockwave flash
object and point it to the swf but it doesn't work right.  The thing
is she got this flash file from someone else in the company.  You're

Is there a keystroke combination to get to the first indent?  (Tab,
shift/tab, and control/tab do not work.)
TIA, Karin

I have to make a poster 4' by 8' and when I try to set this size in
Powerpoint, it keeps changing it from 96 x 48 to 56 x48.  My poster has to be
96 x 48.  How do I get Powerpoint to accept this size?  I'm not worried about
printing because I can get it printed somewhere without ...

I have some code which runs the office assistant and asks the user a
question in which they need to respond.  Unfortunately I cannot get this
macro to run as soon as the presentation is opened as ppt does not have a
'form load' instance.  

I installed office home and student 2007 on my wife's vista laptop and also
on my xp desktop. Did a presentation using australian sunrise font on the
laptop and copied it via pen drive on to my desktop to print it off but the
wording did not appear, on checking, the laptop has ...

i am using PP 2003. I want to play a movie (.wav file) across several slides.
when i right click the button to edit movie objects i select loop. however,
the slides do not advance. i have set the first slide to advance after 8
seconds and the remaining 10 to advance after 1:09 ...

Just wondering if it is possible to find the physical location of selected
text (ie, in units from top and left of slide) within a textbox/autoshape?
I have a macro that formats my selected text in a special way, and I want it
to put a line (not underline, an actual line) under ...

I used
set wksheet1=XLApplication.workbooks.open(excel filename as
string).worksheet("ws1")
and it did work.

I'm having problems with my new Wacom Intuos3 writing tablet in Powerpoint
2007. When I use the ink annotation tools in slide presentation mode using my
writing pen, vertical lines of the same pen color occassionally appear on
certain letters as I write. This does not happen in ...

I'm wanting to write a macro to modify the properties of some cells I have
selected in a table in ppt (but not every cell in the whole table). I can't
seem to work out how to let vba manipulate just the cells I have selected.
Is this possible? Can anyone help?

Hi.  I need more space to add boxes in the org chart area (top to bottom, not
left to right)
I went to help and it said go to the org chart tool bar, layout, click
expand organizational chart.  This option does not exist there.  I'm not even

Quick question.
When using Powerpoint through the application, i can get content from a word
docuemtn and paste it directly onto a slide in a presentation. I want to be
able to do this via the PowerPoint object model. At present all i can manage