academic calendar 2008-2009
When will a template for Powerpoint come out with an academic calender for
2008-2009?
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kreitzer Tag: Power Point Tag: 386294
multiple animated gifs
I have ppt 2002, and am trying to have multiple animated gifs on the same
page (overlapped). Basically, I have each one "appearing" on a mouse click,
and then doing it's animation without a loop, then another mouse click to
activate the next gif animation on top of the first (I am doing this with 8
gif animations). The weird thing is that the animation doesn't always work.
Sometimes as I mouse click the animated gif is already halfway through or
other times it is already at it's last image. The animated gif very rarely
starts and ends correctly. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386293
PowerPoint 2007 Recoloring pictures
In earlier versions of PP it was possible to recolor each component of a
picture. Has this facitiy been removed in PP 2007? If not, where do I find it?
Thanks Tag: Power Point Tag: 386285
Installing a Design
Hi,
When I try to download one of the Themes for Powerpoing 2007 from the
MIcrosoft webpage they dont install, why?? I use a paidfor student version, I
have done the genuine stuff.
Mads Tag: Power Point Tag: 386282
playing video on power point 2007
for my presentation, i want to play video from youtube and play it by url
adress. so i wouldn't have to download the video.
but i dont know how, please help Tag: Power Point Tag: 386281
Forgotten password on a PPT - read only
I have a user who set a password on a PPT to open the file "read only" then
forgot the password.
I'm not that familiar with coding PPT, I'm usually an XL guy; any ideas on
how it may be cracked or is he hosed? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386280
Freeform drawing preview colour in Powerpoint 2007
I use a black background for most of my presentations. In PPT 2003 drawing
with the freeform tool would preview in white before the shape was finalised
by double clicking. In PPT 2007 the preview is black and hence invisible
while drawing the freeform, so I can't see what I am drawing! The results
are usually entertaining. I can't find any option to change the contrast
colour of the freeform tool (in 2003 it appeared to change automatically so
was dark on a light background). Same seems to apply to the scribble and
curve tool. I can change the background colour, but this seems unnecessarily
clunky.
Any suggestions on how to modify this behaviour? Many thanks.
Julian Cooper Tag: Power Point Tag: 386253
determining slide number and object/shape number
I'm using PPT 2007. I need to verify that I am referencing shapes and slides
by their correct number in my vba code. For the slide number, I am looking at
the slide number listed in the status bar in normal view of the slideshow.
For the shapes, I am looking at the number listed in the custom animation
pane for that shape or action button. Is this correct? I think I might be
using the wrong numbers in code, because I'm getting a message that says:
"Shapes(unknown member): Integer out of range. 15 is not in the valid range
of 1 to 13." Tag: Power Point Tag: 386244
placeholder types AND VSTO
Using the AddPlaceholder method of the shapes object allows the
creation of a placeholder shape on a slide. However, the available
placeholder types do not include types that are seen via the
InsertPlaceholder in the ribbon. For example, AddPlaceholder does not
have a ppPlaceholderClipArt to create a clip art placeholder although
a clip art type is available via the ribbon and ppPlaceHolderMixed
throws an error. What gives? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386242
vba code troubles
Does anyone see anything wrong with the following code? I have the
"PrepareSlide22" procedure tied to a picture using "Action Settings", but
nothing happens when I click the picture that this macro is tied to. The
picture that I am clicking is on slide 21. It does not cause the slideshow to
advance to the next slide (slide 22), which is what I want the
macro/procedure to accomplish. Am I doing something wrong here?
Dim correctCube As Integer
Sub PrepareSlide22()
Initialize
ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.View.Next
End Sub
Sub Initialize()
correctCube = 0
ActivePresentation.Slides(22).Shapes(16).Visible = msoFalse
End Sub Tag: Power Point Tag: 386238
PowerPoint 2003
I cannot seem to place a macro on a customized toolbar in PowerPoint 2003. I
went through the "How to Steps" on your site, but they did not work for me?
Appreciate if you could provide the steps necessary to perform this action.
The next question involves Custom Animation regarding choosing between: 1)
Click, 2) With Previous, and 3) After Previous. I'm not understanding how to
select these options? Please explain.
Sincerely,
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Cynthia Behnam Tag: Power Point Tag: 386236
playing sounds using vba
Can someone please show me a line of code to accomplish each of the following
two tasks?
(1) Play a sound from a file
(2) Play a sound from the clip organizer
Thanks. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386231
run vba procedure on slide 5
I have created a vba procedure. I know how to tie a procedure to an action
button, but I need this procedure to run when slide 5 becomes active/visible,
during the course of the slideshow. How can I accomplish this? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386230
package an interactive presentation
I have a problem here.. after package my presentation, user can click on the
slide to go 4 the next slide... i just want user to click on the button. i
can do this before with pack & go... HELPPPPPP!!!! Tag: Power Point Tag: 386225
where can I find a legal template for car rental?
I have someone who is taking over payments of my car and I would like a
document that would start me in the right direction in terms of putting
everything down on paper so the both parties are covered. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386223
PowerPoint Presentation Reverted Back To Previously Saved Version
My wife is working on a project and lost several hours of work. Don't know
exactly what happened, but here's what I know, based on what she told me...
---She's been working on it for weeks.
---When she started Sunday morning it was 14 pages long.
---After working on/off throughout the day it was 22 pages long.
---She regularly saves her work. She won't even minimize it without saving.
---Late Sunday night she opened it and it was exactly as it was when she
started that morning. Everything she did that day is gone.
---There was no crash, so no autorecovery.
I searched all drives for PowerPoint files and could not find any other than
the 14-page version. Also searched for templates and webfiles to see if she
accidentally saved as one of those, but no luck. When she saves she simply
hits the save button. AutoSave is set for every 10 minutes but can't find
any files.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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CR Tag: Power Point Tag: 386213
Reduce Filesize
Hi !
Weekly I send a Powerpoint report by mail with a lot of pictures. I use the
same file every week, but I replace most of the pictures with new once.
The file size have increased to twice as the orginal size, because of the
'Maximum numbers of undo' is set to 10.
I can set this to 3 or 5, but it's still a problem.
Now I wonder if anyone now if it's possible to empty the Undo-cache memory
by using VBA code.
//Lasse Tag: Power Point Tag: 386212
Powerpoint doesnt install
I had a computer crash and had to reinstall Office 2000 small business version
PowerPoint is not installed.
Where can I find/install it? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386210
Custom Autoshapes
I'm looking to create a custom autoshape group and type in PowerPoint 2003.
Is there any way to do this such that users can access the same autoshape
menu and now see my new group/shapes? I realize that I can add a button or
other means to create custom autoshapes, but I wanted to maintain a
consistent experience for my users.
My question is also related to VSTO, but I've already tried the dev forum
and wanted to take a shot at the PPT newsgroup to see if anyone here had any
suggestions.
Any help is appreciated. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386209
font size chang in list
Hi!
I'm trying to make a ppttemplate. In the masterslide I have set the fontsize
for all list levels to 11 pt (this ppt will not be used on screen).
When I try to use the list the first level is 11 pt, if I then use tab to
change level the fontsize changes to 9 pt. I have tryed to check and uncheck
the "autofit bullet lists" and "auto fit text to placeholder" under
tools/autocorrect.
What am I doing wrong?
Lina Tag: Power Point Tag: 386204
from multiple pics
I have been sent a few JPG files. In each file has been scanned a lot of
photos (as many as would fit on a scanner window), instead of sending me the
photos each with its own file.
I have tried "highlighting" one photo, did COPY and want to paste it on a
slide, but it won't let me do that.
Would I have to separate each photo into its own file name, then do "insert
file" (into Powerpoint) with each picture. That would take forever.
Please tell me there is an easier way? Thanks for any help.
Katherine Tag: Power Point Tag: 386190
Insert picture
Hi there. I am trying to insert a picture taken from a new camera into my
PPT 2002 student/teacher edition. It won't let me paste the picture. I get
an empty picture box with the ol' little red box with the 'X' in the upper
left hand corner. I can paste other pics without any problems, just the
picture from the new camera. The picture is a DSC_####.jpg file, 1,489 kb.
Thanks for any help you can give Tag: Power Point Tag: 386184
Adding a Video Attract Loop to beginning of PPT presentation
I am displaying a PowerPoint presentation at a confernce. I am trying to add
a "looping attract" video to the beginning of a ppt. presentation. I want
this video to loop full screen, and then when someone walks up to the monitor
and clicks on the video, I'd like it to go to the next slide and begin the
PPT presentation. If there is any inactivity for a period of time, I would
like this movie to start looping until the next person clicks it and begins
the powerpoint. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386183
Font size
For some reason my default font size is 44 - way to big for text, so with
each slide I have to keep changing it to e.g. 16. Can I change this to stay
at 16?
I tried the Help but it wasn't much 'help' :-)
Katherine Tag: Power Point Tag: 386178
Can a recorded narration be paused during the slide show?
I am recording a presentation In PowerPoint 2007 and would like the ability
to pause during slide show play before the narration is finished with the
slide. Is this functionality available? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386171
animation ppt2003
My 5th grade students created digital narratives using powerpoint 2003. I
have combined each individual slide show into one long one so I can show them
at the annual Art Show (I'm an art teacher) as a continuous ongoing show
during the night.
Here's my problem: the individual animation schemes from slide group to
slide group differ; however in the animation command box you have to "apply
to all", which means all the seperate slide groups have to have the same
animation, evan if they are not selected.
Is there a way around this? The art show is May 8th and I would like to fix
this problem by then.
Thanks,
Tom Tag: Power Point Tag: 386169
Still can't add video
I have a clip and it is in windows media player. When I try to insert it
onto the slide show I go to Insert - Movie and Sounds - Movie from file.
Then I select the clip and add insert but nothing shows on the slide show.
What am I doing wrong? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386168
using video in powerpoint presentation
I did a slide presentation for our church and I put a video inset on one of
the pages. When i transferred it to our church computer it would not play.
OUr church computer only has a viewer but its worked with other slides. This
is the first time i tried a video in the slide. It wouldn't work it just
showed the first screen of the video. Anyone know what could be the problem?
thanks Tag: Power Point Tag: 386167
video/audio file portable issue
Hi,
Need some help desprately as the deadline for this project is appraching.
I'm doing a pp presentation with a large amount of audio/video files. The
video/audio files were created using a common av software and then inserted
into the slides. When the project was done I burned the final pps and
associated video audio files on a CD. I had to modify the slides so they
could link to the embedded files, which are now on the D drive, my CD drive.
So far everything is fine. Then here's the problem. I moved to another
computer which has its CD drive as E: (the new vista system has D occupied as
'Data' - what the heck is that?). The pps wouldn't work (!!!) - it's still
searching for the av files from D drive. Because I don't know what drive the
recipient of this project has as their CD drive, I am risking sending them
something that's not playable. I've been trying to figure out something to
solve the problem but couldn't, - very frustrated. Could anyone please help
out? Thanks very much in advance for your help! Tag: Power Point Tag: 386164
Multimedia card
I have followed the steps outlined in 'how to create a multimedia card' but
have not had any success. The steps 'insert a movie' and 'insert sound',
should these already be on my hard drive? Thanks Tag: Power Point Tag: 386162
Format Page Number x/y in footer
I would like to insert in my footer of my powerpoint file
the page number in this format x/y , that is to say current_page/
total_page.
Do you know what i have to do?
Thanks Tag: Power Point Tag: 386160
What is login!default?
When I try to view a PowerPoint the slides are blank. If I download the file
it comes up with all the slides. What is going on and how do I fix this? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386157
Running Macro from workbook embedded in PPT
Hi All,
I am using Office 2007.
I have an intriguing problem with a ppt addin.
The default PPT addins location is =91C:\Documents and Settings
\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns=92 =96 it is a trusted
location.
I have 2 files in this folder =96 a ppt addin and a ppt presentation
containing 2 slides =96 each of the slides has an embedded Excel 2007
workbook containing macros.
The PPT addin is registered as an active addin in Powerpoint.
The addin does this: Adds 2 buttons to the Addins tab in PPT and opens
the ppt presentation in the background (without a window). Clicking
one of these buttons in the add-ins tab copies one of the mebedded
Excel workbooks from the invisible ppt to the current slide. So far so
good. Since the ppt addin is in a trusted folder (C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns is marked as
trusted) =96 the addin code runs.
BUT=85
The inserted workbook also contains macros =96 when I activate the
embedded workbook newly pasted in the current slide to edit the data,
the macros are disabled. Adding the C:\Documents and Settings
\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns folder to trusted
locations in Excel options does not work =96 a reason could be that the
workbook is not saved in this location as a file =96 it is an embedded
(macro enabled) workbook on a ppt slide.
The end user cannot allow setting macro option to allow all macros to
run.
Apart from using digital signatures, is there a way to do this?
Thak you,
Mala Tag: Power Point Tag: 386156
How do I stop my slide show shutting down midshow
The slide show is stopping automatically and returning me to the main screen
in the middle of a presentation. It is an issue that has only just arisen.
How do I stop this? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386151
Transparent Chart from Excel?
I like the "Transparent / 3D Effect that I get when I insert a PowerPoint
Chart using the default Microsoft Graph program that comes with PowerPoint.
Is there a way to apply that cool look to a graph imported or pasted from
Excel?
I have tried importing Excel Data into Microsoft Graph but that seems to
mess up the way the data is grouped in the chart. Also if I try to set a
transparent color the control is dimmed.
Any Ideas?
Quin Tag: Power Point Tag: 386143
Add preview to design template pane
I've downloaded several design templates for PowerPoint XP (2002), but only
Microsoft's default ones show up in my task pane as "Available For Use." I
saved the new ones in the same location as the others, and all are the same
file type. I've used the new ones in test presentations several times each,
but they still aren't showing up as available for use. If I browse for them
to apply them, they'll show up as "Recently Used," but I'd really prefer not
to have to browse for them. Any help? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386141
Powerpoint Conversion
A friend of mine did a very large slide show using powerpoint. Now she
wants to know what the best way is to convert it to a video (DVD) that can
be played on her DVR/TV. What are the options... that does not cost. I
thought Roxio would do the trick but it won't take a .ppt as a source file.
I also had Nero, but my version will not load onto her Vista Computer ( I
run XP-Pro myself).
Thanks Tag: Power Point Tag: 386136
comments print order
When printing comments in Powerpoint 2003, comments are grouped by reviewer
and date of comment. Is it possible to have them print in the order they
appear on the slide instead?
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Ginger Tag: Power Point Tag: 386135
New Look
Is there any way to make PowerPoint (or any of the 2007 Office products) look
like version 2003? I'm thinking of the 'Classic' windows settings in Windows
XP? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386123
Macro that copies a range of slides from main presentation
I am attempting to build a macro that will copy a range of slides from a Main
Presentation, open a new presentation, and paste those slides into a new
presentation, therebye creating a sub-presentation from the Main
Presentation.
The user has the option in the Powerpoint to select which chunks of the
presentation to split, using checkboxes, and then user selects a button,
that, upon selecting, all checked chunks are copied and pasted to a new
presentation. Note that as I currently have it, each checkbox relates to a
textbox that holds the slide numbers for the slides that are to be copied
should that textbox be checked. These textboxes will be locked to the user.
Simple picture:
Checkbox Text box
[X] Section A [1 , 2, 4]
[ ] Section B [5, 7, 8]
[X] Section C [9, 10, 11]
Given the above, if the user pushes the button, a new PP is started and the
slides numbered above are copied from the original and pasted into the new.
I have introductory experience with basic VBA and have used textboxes and
buttons before. The below is my VBA to this point. Note that the code goes
out to a template on the server in order to ensure the formatting is retained
on paste, and then deletes the slides that are in the template once the paste
is done. Also, the macro currently breaks. I am trying to have the Dim Seg1
Variant Array set by the text in the text box, but the way i have worded it
is not clean. You can see for seg2 and seg3 the original approach that I
took, which requires the PP creater to go into the VBA code to set the arrays.
Also, currently the paste only pastes one of the copies. I have not figured
out how to do a CTRL + select copy (multicopy) in VBA.
I hope the VBA and explanation helps give you a picture of what I am trying
to do. If you can help in anyway, or have a better approach to take then the
direction that I am heading in below, I'm willing to try about anything at
this point.
Thanks:
Current VBA:
Private Sub GenReport1_Click()
Dim Seg1 As Variant
Seg1 = Array(TextSeg1.Value)
Dim Seg2 As Variant
Seg2 = Array(1, 5, 6)
Dim Seg3 As Variant
Seg3 = Array(1, 7, 8)
With ActivePresentation
If CheckSeg1.Enabled = True Then
.Slides.Range(Seg1).Copy
End If
If CheckSeg2.Enabled = True Then
.Slides.Range(Seg2).Copy
End If
If CheckSeg3.Enabled = True Then
.Slides.Range(Seg3).Copy
End If
Presentations.Open FileName:="\\address", Untitled:=msoTrue
ActiveWindow.View.Paste
ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Delete
End With
End Sub Tag: Power Point Tag: 386119
Security Warning When Clicking on Hyperlink in Presentation
I am supporting a client using Mac OS X and PowerPoint 2004. He has an
action button -- actually a hyperlink -- that takes him to a file external to
the PowerPoint presentation. When the link is clicked a warning about files
containing viruses, etc. appears. How can he get rid of that message? Also,
he may not use the same computer to run the presentation. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386118
Quicktime and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to se
"Quicktime and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see tis
picture."
I'm seeing this message when trying to view a powerpoint i received. Does
anyone know to view this image? I've tried a google search, contact quicktime
but nothing... Please HELP!!! Tag: Power Point Tag: 386117
text box default
I am using PP 2007 Home and Student Edition. Is it possible to set the
default text box so it's the same every time I open the program? I have
tried to set it with the Designs>Themes but it always goes back when I start
a new slide. Am I missing something? Tag: Power Point Tag: 386116
Page Size of Notes pages converted to pdf
When I convert PowerPoint 2007 notes pages to pdf format the page size is set
to 7.16 X 10.12. Is there any way to change this so the resulting pdf page
size is 8.5 X 11?
I'm using the Publish as PDF or XPS add-in from Microsoft to do the
conversion. Tag: Power Point Tag: 386115
running power point as the inactive application
I am using ppt to run a digital sign on a PC with dual monitor output.
I would like to be able to run other applications on my PC (I have two
monitors) while the power point presentation continues to run on the same
machine but using the second monitor (the digital sign).
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make this happen.
Currently if I use the PC for other work powerpoint will pause until it is
made the active application again. It can be minimized and will still run but
as soon as I go to another application it will pause again until I return to
power point.
Don Tag: Power Point Tag: 386110
What steps do I use to automatically advance Power Point slides?