Table of Contents
New Add-ins / Products / Sites
Tricks, Tips, Problems, Fixes and Upgrades
PowerPoint Help from Microsoft
PowerPoint-Related Subjects - Help and Info
Working with Charts and Graphs
Distributing & Delivering Presentations
Video Projectors and Dual Monitors
Making Acrobat PDFs from PowerPoint
Printing, Overheads, 35mm Slides, Pre-press
Accessibility and Internationalization
Creating and Installing Add-ins, Toolbars, Buttons
Automating one app from another
Troubleshoot Problems, Interpret Error Messages
Other Mac PowerPoint Resources
Solutions in Search of a Problem
Troubleshooting Tips and Procedures
PowerPoint Crashes Without Error Message
Display, Screen Show & Multimedia Problems
Corrupted or unopenable PPT files
Printing & File Saving Problems
Problems with PowerPoint on the Web
Cross-Version / Cross-Platform Problems
READ ME FIRST
Before you use PowerPoint [Top]
Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
Don't do this with PowerPoint. Seriously.
And if you drive PowerPoint on a Mac, see this
Consider HOW you'll use PowerPoint. And whether you should.
Virus Alert - Bogus messages that seem to be from Microsoft
Thinking about buying PowerPoint or Office pre-installed on a new computer?
Having PowerPoint problems? [Top]
Most Common PowerPoint Questions
Free PowerPoint Viewers, Viewer Capabilities
The Myers Multimedia FAQ by Austin Myers (PowerPoint MVP)
General PowerPoint troubleshooting procedures
Disappearing or blank thumbnails in task panes
POWERPOINT 2007
What's new in PowerPoint 2007?
How can I open PowerPoint 2007 files in earlier PowerPoint versions
Create your own PowerPoint 2007 Themes
PowerPoint appears in grayscale or black & white, b/w
How can I ungroup graphs/charts in PowerPoint 2007?
PowerPoint 2007 bugs / problems
PowerPoint 2007 Hotfixes and Service Packs
PowerPoint 2007 VBA bugs/problems
Working with text in PowerPoint 2007
No more Pattern Fills in PowerPoint 2007
Office 2007 / PowerPoint 2007 (aka Office 12 / PowerPoint 12)
PowerPoint 2007 equivalents of older version commands
Using Equation Editor with PowerPoint 2007
Using MSGraph with PowerPoint 2007
Installing Office 2007 with other Office versions
PowerPoint 2007 makes pictures blurry, loses GIF animation
Clear The Recent Document list in PowerPoint 2007 and 2003
PowerPoint 2007 files don't download correctly from a Web Server, open as zip files
Red X replaces images on slides inserted into PowerPoint 2007 presentations
Links added to SmartArt don't work
PowerPoint 2007 won't update links to files on network drives
NEW STUFF / USEFUL STUFF
PowerPoint News [Top]
Ric Bretschneider (PowerPoint Program Manager at Microsoft) blogs and podcasts
Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2003 released
Creating animated cartoons and movies in PowerPoint
PowerPoint, PundiTuftes and the Press
How can I get Office 2003 updates and service packs as files, not over-the-web installations?
New Add-ins / Products / Sites [Top]
PowerPoint Blogs, Podcasts, Columns and Newsfeeds
Corporate branding and graphics standards
Make sure your media Plays For Certain
PowerPoint Add-in to delete selected content: TagErase
Slide Into Word: A kinder, gentler Send To Word from PowerPoint MVP Bill Dilworth
Prep4PDF: A PowerPoint to PDF Conversion Assistant
A PowerPoint Yellow Pages - PowerPoint-related products and services
Free Sequential Save Add-in by Shyam Pillai
Export shapes as graphics from PowerPoint 97
Tricks, Tips, Problems, Fixes and Upgrades [Top]
Make sure that text fits slides, adding new slides as needed for "overflow"
PowerPoint unexpectedly puts content into placeholders
Links between slides don't work in PowerPoint HTML
PowerPoint connects to the internet unexpectedly
Copyright: can I use music, pictures, etc. in my presentations?
Find the color of a pixel in an image
Command Line Switches - PowerPoint and PowerPoint Viewers
FIND MORE POWERPOINT HELP
PowerPoint Help Online [Top]
How do I join the PowerPoint newsgroup?
Guidelines for the PowerPoint Newsgroup
Search the web for PowerPoint help
PowerPoint-Seiten auf Deutsch (PowerPoint Sites in German)
Other PowerPoint-related sites
What are these Qxxxxx articles people keep mentioning?
Where can I download a copy of PowerPoint?
PowerPoint Help from Microsoft [Top]
Contact Microsoft - Support, Sales, Replacement CDs etc.
Make suggestions, report problems to Microsoft
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (XP) Information
PowerPoint Resources on microsoft.com
Using the MS KnowledgeBase (MSKB)
Office and PowerPoint Service Packs
PowerPoint-Related Subjects - Help and Info [Top]
PostScript, EPS, PDF and related subjects
Presentations for international audiences
Web Resources: HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.
Color Theory, File Formats, etc.
Windows troubleshooting, networking and setup resources
TIPS, TECHNIQUES, TUTORIALS
Tutorials [Top]
Example PowerPoint Presentations
Other sites with links to tutorials
Suggested PowerPoint curriculum from MS
Using the Windows Scheduler with PowerPoint
Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers
Using Japanese, Chinese, Korean (CJK) languages in PowerPoint
Customizing PowerPoint [Top]
Customizing PowerPoint's right-click popup menus
Creating Presentations [Top]
Working with two monitors; editing PowerPoint on dual monitors
Creating accessible PowerPoint presentations
Slide numbering - Slide XX of YY
Set default text and drawing shape styles
Create a default "blank" presentation with your own defaults
Create a table of contents (TOC) slide with links
How can I remove the template / revert to the original blank template?
How can I use Pantone, TruMatch, CMYK or other colors in PowerPoint?
Create your own template folder in PowerPoint 2000 and later
Control the formatting of hyperlinked text
How big should text be? What's the ideal font size?
Use more than one master in a presentation
Mix Portrait and Landscape slides in a presentation
Create a library of slides to build presentations from (slide repository)
Create a new presentation using parts of an existing one
Drawing & Working with Shapes [Top]
Hiding shapes on a gradient, textured or patterned background
Selecting shapes that are covered by other shapes
Adding editable points to a shape, editing points when PowerPoint says No
How to add arrowheads to a Cycle diagram in PowerPoint 2002
Working with Text [Top]
Create vertically stacked text
Create a PowerPoint presentation from a plain text file
Creating Equations in PowerPoint
Add special characters to text
Removing a misspelled word once it's been added to the spell check dictionary
Working with tab stops and indents
Working with Charts and Graphs [Top]
Working with colors in MS Graph
MS Graph User-defined Custom Chart Types
GANTT and other project planning chart types
Reset manually edited chart labels to show automatic text
Linking information from Excel
Extracting Excel content from PowerPoint
Working with Sound and Movies [Top]
Edit the narration for a slide after it has been recorded
Adding show-length narration to a PowerPoint presentation
Playing movies in slow or fast motion
Distributing & Delivering Presentations [Top]
Distributing PPTs - Pitfalls, Panics & Pleasures
Does a PPS (PowerPoint Show) need PowerPoint or a Viewer to play? Can I edit a PPS?
Password protect a presentation
Send a presentation that opens automatically in email
Make a standalone EXE that runs a PowerPoint presentation
Make sure my chosen fonts are available
Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
Make the pointer or cursor go away (screenshow)
Distributing in Other Formats [Top]
Distribute presentations as Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format)
Distribute presentations as video on VHS or DVD
Distribute presentations using Microsoft Producer
Online PowerPoint Presentation Systems - web conferencing, broadcasting etc.
Distribute presentations using handhelds (PocketPC, Palm)
Make a screensaver from PowerPoint
Video Projectors and Dual Monitors [Top]
Dual monitors and PowerPoint (by Paul Iordanides) (and others)
A Multiple Monitor Tutorial by PowerPoint MVP Chirag Dalal
How do I hook up this video projector?
Video Connectors: JohnO's Techie Workshop
Video Projector Reviews/Info/Utilities
Screen Shows [Top]
Disable mouse and keyboard control during a presentation
Create hotkeys ( keyboard shortcuts ) to macros and menu items
Adding or entering text during a show
Make PowerPoint go to previous slide on right mouse-click
Create menu slides with links to other presentations or links between slides in a presentation
Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
Play movies across multiple slides
Launch a program w/o user seeing confirmation dialog
Reset all SLIDE TIMINGS in a presentation
Keyboard shortcut to start slide show from current slide
Animation [Top]
Animations don't play when I go back to a slide
Change animation effect for just a few slides out of a presentation (2002/2003)
Make animated text appear line by line (build slides)
Create MOVIE CREDITS-style crawling text
Making Acrobat PDFs from PowerPoint [Top]
How can I make Acrobat PDFs from PowerPoint?
Problems making PDFs from PowerPoint
My PowerPoint PDFs are cropped; footers, page numbers, dates are missing
My PDFs from PowerPoint are rotated
Bad hyperlinks in PDFs from Acrobat
Importing and Converting [Top]
CDs, iTunes and other downloaded sounds in PowerPoint
Import Web Pages into PowerPoint
Converting from Freelance to PowerPoint
Converting XXX presentations to PowerPoint
Converters - Sound, Movie, Graphics, etc.
Adam's Transparency Tutorial (Alpha channels and more)
Alpha Transparency from CorelDraw
Embed FLASH effects into PowerPoint
Import PDF content into PowerPoint
BATCH IMPORT images into PowerPoint
Resize pictures to fill the slide (fit to slide)
Convert SGI graphics for use in PowerPoint
Exporting [Top]
Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
Extract images and sounds from PowerPoint
Extract images from PowerPoint
Export linked narration sound files in logically named/numbered order
Convert PowerPoint to Pocket PowerPoint
Convert presentations into Movie files
Convert presentations to VHS or DVD video
Printing, Overheads, 35mm Slides, Pre-press [Top]
Printing PowerPoint: Slide size v. Printer Page size
Control how your presentation prints in B/W
Print posters or other large format output
Print large-format slides to normal size paper (tile,tiling)
Print without opening PowerPoint
PhotoEdit won't print - Not Enough Memory messages
Color Calibration on the Cheap
WEBifying your PowerPoint [Top]
Put your PowerPoint on the Web
Put your PowerPoint-generated HTML on the web
Optimize PowerPoint's HTML for Netscape Navigator
Make PowerPoint 2000 HTML open full screen
Making PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007 HTML open full screen
How to make links open in a new window from PowerPoint's HTML
Get rid of the outline pane and navigation controls in HTML from PowerPoint 2000 and up
Sounds won't play across multiple slides on the web
How to create HTML without frames
Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
Everything there is to know about PowerPoint's HTML
Using the Web Publishing Wizard to upload your files to the web
Cross-platform Compatibility [Top]
Preparing Mac Files for the PC (or Doin' The Illustrator Two-Step)
Cross-Version Compatibility [Top]
Set the character PowerPoint 97 and the Viewer use in place of picture bullets
Can I move my custom settings from one computer to another?
Accessibility and Internationalization [Top]
The PPT Dictionary - PowerPoint menu commands in many languages
GENERAL INFO
Misc. HowTos [Top]
Make Windows show file extensions and hidden files
How to turn off Windows Messenger service
How to turn off UAC (user account control) in Windows Vista
Screen shots / Screen captures
Changing a File Association, Repairing broken File Associations
Improving the view in Windows Explorer
Add Asian Language support to PowerPoint, Office, Windows
What version of Windows / PowerPoint is it?
How to find the share name and path to a network printer
Scans, Resolution, DPI [Top]
What's the best resolution for images in PowerPoint screen shows?
Scanning - Bitmap Resolution - DPI
Preparing bitmap images for 35mm slides
Ideal Scan Sizes for 35mm Slides
What's all this about DPI and INCHES and RESOLUTION?
What formats does Windows Media Player play?
Fonts [Top]
PowerPoint opens presentations as Read-Only, won't allow editing when fonts embedded
Companion Software [Top]
Versions & Compatibility [Top]
Where can I get information about older Office or PowerPoint versions?
End User License Agreements (EULA)
Using Microsoft copyrighted content (clip art, sounds, fonts, etc.)
Can I install standalone PowerPoint along with Small Business Edition?
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office XP Released
About Office and Windows XP Product Activation and Licensing
Can I install multiple versions of PowerPoint / Office?
PowerPoint 2000 Migration Guide
PowerPoint 2000 FEATURES not supported in PowerPoint 97
PowerPoint 97 vs 2000 incompatibilities
PowerPoint 2002 (XP) vs 2000 vs 97
Saving backwards to PowerPoint 95
Which version of Office 2003 is right for me?
How long will support be available?
What Is ...? [Top]
Where Can I Find ...? [Top]
Office Patches (Service Releases, Service Packs, SR-x, SP-x)
Clocks and timers for PowerPoint
Company and product logo graphics
Maps, Flags and other national clip art
The mother of all PPT LINKS pages
General Presentation Advice [Top]
LEGALITIES, RESTRICTIONS etc. [Top]
How can I use Office Clip Art?
PROGRAMMING POWERPOINT
These code samples come from various authors and are here for purposes of illustration. We can't (and don't) guarantee that they'll work on all systems, or that they are free of harmful side effects. It's your responsibility to verify the appropriateness and safety of any code you find here.
We don't offer tech support for the code here. If you have any problems or questions, please post a detailed description on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Whether the author chooses to respond is entirely up to them.
VBA code only works in PowerPoint 97 or later. It doesn't work at all in the free PowerPoint Viewer.
For VBeginners [Top]
How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint
Will VBA solve my presentation problem?
Where can I learn more about VBA programming in PowerPoint?
VBA in PowerPoint / Mac vs. Windows
Creating and Installing Add-ins, Toolbars, Buttons [Top]
How can I get my code to run automatically when a presentation opens?
Create an ADD-IN with TOOLBARS that run macros
PowerPoint Event Handling Oddities
Show Me [Top]
Show me the ID of PowerPoint's command bar controls (and launch them)
Show me the next unhidden slide
Show me a list of designs and which slides use them
Show me the designs in a presentation; apply designs ONLY to selected slides
Show me the text in an OLE text control on a slide
Show me the built in properties and their values
Get a reference to a placeholder on a slide
Show Me: The hyperlinks in my presentation
Show me the .Type of each object on a slide
Show the .Type of each shape (including shapes in groups)
Show me the transition time of each slide and total running time of the show
Show me the transition, speed etc. of each slide
Determine which shape was clicked
The names of all main menu commands
The SlideIndex of the current slide
How many lines in the text box?
Make links and action settings visible
Exporting stuff [Top]
Export comments to a text file (PowerPoint 2002 and later)
Export comments to a text file (PowerPoint 2000 and previous, Mac PowerPoint)
General-purpose routine for writing a string to a text file
Export Slide Number and Title Text to a text file
Export Text to a text file, extract text from PowerPoint (Mac or PC)
Export the text of a presentation to a CSV/Excel file
Export the notes text of a presentation
Export the PowerPoint presentation outline to a tabbed text file
Export the names and coordinates and type of all shapes
Put an image on the clipboard to use as a custom toolbar icon
Adding stuff [Top]
Importing notes text from a text file
Add an On-Screen Keyboard to your presentation
Create a custom show from current slide selection using VBA
Copy a picture or other shape to every slide in a presentation
Insert all slides from a group of presentations into the current presentation
Add a random phrase from a text file to a text box on each slide
Add new slides with titles and text from a text file
Add a "thermometer" progress bar to each slide
Insert a picture at the correct size
Batch Insert a folder full of pictures, one per slide
Add the current path and file to every slide
Read in text from an ascii file?
Add a text box with scrollbars; populate it with text
Insert a symbol or other character at the insert cursor position
Add shape with text to "flag" hidden vs unhidden slides
How many slides can a presentation hold?
Frame a slide with a rectangle
Toggle a design grid on and off
Deleting stuff [Top]
Delete all hyperlinks in a slide presentation
Delete all slides but those in a custom show
Delete shapes with no fill and no line
Delete notes page text (or text and shapes)
How do I GET RID OF MACROS I've added? Warning message about "this presentation contains macros"
Ungroup all the OLE objects in a presentation
Create a subset of an existing presentation
Changing stuff [Top]
Correct the order of shapes on Notes Pages. Fix disappearing notes in presenter view.
Sort a presentation based on slide titles
Invert the current selection: select all unselected shapes
Reformat all instances of a particular phrase
Reapply slide layout to every slide in the presentation
Assign an Action Setting, Run Macro action to multiple shapes at once
Highlight shapes in PowerPoint
Working with Tab settings in text
Working with PowerPoint tables
Merge text from several text boxes into one text box
Changing PowerPoint's Options and AutoCorrect settings
Show me the link and let me edit it
Search and Replace for Hyperlinks
Search & Replace to change OLE link paths
Convert all OLE objects to grouped MSDraw objects
Reapply the Notes Master to each Notes Page in a presentation
Convert PowerPoint tables to HTML
Changing shapes within groups (without ungrouping)
Working with Tags (and a bit about Functions)
Working with pictures on slides
Create agenda slides with a "moving highlight"
Convert PowerPoint 2002/2003 comments into PowerPoint 2000 comments
Change the author, date, etc. of Comments
Make subscripts and superscripts larger
Bringing certain shapes on top of others in your slides
PowerPoint underlines spaces and tabs - workaround
An "LCD" counter that you can change
Printing [Top]
Print just the current slide from Slide Show View
Print alternate Slides and Notes Pages
Batch Tricks [Top]
Batch: Do something to every file in a folder
Batch re-save presentations; update older presentations to newer PowerPoint version
Apply a shape's formatting to all similar shapes in presentation
Animations and Transitions [Top]
Peekaboo Text: Use VBA to make text appear and disappear
Apply a random transition to every slide in a presentation
Where can I find information about animation in PowerPoint 2002 (XP) and 2003?
Working with Excel [Top]
Excel code to modify Excel chart palette colors
Excel Charts to PowerPoint and other goodies
Convert linked Excel charts to embedded Excel charts
Automating one app from another [Top]
General info on Office Automation
Controlling Office Applications from PowerPoint (by Naresh Nichani and Brian Reilly)
Automate Excel from PowerPoint. Automate PowerPoint from Excel. And so on.
How to automate PowerPoint using VB
Invoke PPT and run a macro from VB
Server Office Automation Issues
Working with MSGraph charts [Top]
MSGraph Colors -- The Periodic Table of the Graph
Programmatically add an MSGraph chart as a user-defined custom graph type
Extract data from MS Graph Chart
Ungroup every MSGraph chart in a presentation
Working with external data [Top]
Where it starts: the DisplayData project by Naresh Nichani and Brian Reilly
Using Excel and Access data in PowerPoint Tables (by Brian Reilly and Naresh Nichani)
Excel worksheet data to a PowerPoint array (part of a tutorial by Brian Reilly and Naresh Nichani)
Other [Top]
A Next Slide button that runs code also
Use VBA to read text from a file
Interleave slides from several presentations
Ungroup and ReGroup all pictures and OLE objects
Reset the size of the slide images on notes pages to a single standard size
Convert slide titles to shapes to solve hyperlink limit problems
How do I distinguish the special page number characters on masters?
Keep Score with Static Variables
Recolor or hide "key" text in a presentation
Convert key text into underscore characters (ie, make them into Fill In The Blanks)
Use ShellExecute to sidestep certain linking problems
Use DIR to get a list of files
Manipulating Listbox and Combobox controls on slides and forms
Fill a listbox with slide titles, make it go to chosen slide when clicked
Randomize the order of a PowerPoint presentation
Call a macro in another presentation and pass it parameters
Substitute one string for another in text
Fill the MRU (Most Recently Used) list with bogus file names
Single macro that can manipulate any shape that's clicked in slide show view
Slide number, SlideID, SlideIndex and all that jazz
Hide PowerPoint while I automate it
Macros I record in Normal/Slide view don't work in Slide Show
Get DOCUMENT PROPERTIES without opening each file
Get the Document Properties of a PPT file
Determine the first CD ROM drive letter
All about Macro Security in Office 2000
Where can I learn about the PowerPoint FILE FORMAT
Hyperlink .SubAddress - How to interpret it
PowerPoint and Viewer Object Models
Create an index or table of contents (TOC) with links to a folder full of PPT files
Convert PowerPoint's color values into grayscale
VBA bugs [Top]
HasChildShapeRange returns incorrect values
Checking for autoshape text produces text
Message: "PowerPoint found an error it can't correct" when starting PowerPoint97 under Win2000
Querying Picture Properties crashes PPT XP
MAC FAQS
Troubleshoot Problems, Interpret Error Messages [Top]
Mac: General troubleshooting suggestions for Office
Mac: QuickTime Movies don't play well in PowerPoint 2004
PowerPoint crashes / complains about missing fonts
Mac: Certain presentations crash PowerPoint 98 and 2001
Avoiding "Converting Metafile" dialogs in PowerPoint Mac
Error: "Memory was too full to draw everything..." or Red X in PowerPoint 98/2001 Mac
Mac: How do I recover corrupt or unreadable PowerPoint presentations?
Animations don't work in PowerPoint X after updating to Jaguar
Presentations lose animations in Mac PowerPoint X / Windows PowerPoint 2000 and previous
Mac: I can't import Windows Media Files into my presentation
PowerPoint X / 2004 crashes on startup
PowerPoint Viewer for Mac keeps insisting on being reinstalled
Mac PowerPoint prints in B/W to my color printer
Mac: Notes no longer match slides
Mac: Temp files eating my hard drive!
Mac: Can't import CIL files into Clip Gallery
Mac: MPEG movies unreliable - don't always play
PowerPoint 98 or 2001 crashes with a 'Type 2' error when I open it
Mac: Error 2/Crash when printing to Epson 740
Mac: Type 2 or 3 errors after customizing toolbars in PowerPoint 2001
Mac: When I select a font, PowerPoint uses a different font
Mac: Can't edit data in Microsoft Graph
Downloads, Contact Microsoft [Top]
How do I send feedback and suggestions on PowerPoint for Mac?
Mac Office/PowerPoint Downloads, Tutorials and FAQs from Microsoft
Free PowerPoint Viewers for Mac
What happened to the Mac PowerPoint newsgroup?
How-Tos [Top]
How do I use a database in Mac Office?
How to insert a .WMV movie into Mac PowerPoint
How do I enable Quartz Text Smoothing/anti-aliasing in PowerPoint X?
How do I optimize Mac presentations for Windows PowerPoint?
Mac: Use Make Movie to create a QuickTime presentation for use on Windows
Mac: Insert a picture from file/camera/scanner and size it to fit the slide in one step
How to create PDFs from Mac PowerPoint
Mac: How to create a presentation for distribution on CD
Mac: How do I customize the Office Manager?
How does PPT Mac store graphics internally?
Other Mac PowerPoint Resources [Top]
Other Mac PowerPoint / Mac Office Sites
STUPID PPT-TRIX
OK. I'll bite. What's THIS all about?
Awww. Do you miss your pal Clippy?
Solutions in Search of a Problem [Top]
Object-ively Foolish or total Videocy? You decide.
Running more than one slide show at once
TROUBLESHOOTING
Troubleshooting Tips and Procedures [Top]
General PROBLEMS and solutions
How to select a default printer
How to install a TEST printer driver
How to install a local printer driver
How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
How to start Office in Safe Mode
How to start Windows in Safe Mode
Problems with unreadable CDs/DVDs
Using the Office Setup program
Completely uninstall Office - Office Erasers / Registry Cleaners
Using System Information to gather troubleshooting info
Do I have antivirus software installed? How to find out.
Find and Delete PowerPoint's PCB file
General information about Windows Printing
PowerPoint Crashes Without Error Message [Top]
PowerPoint 2002 / XP crashes while running add-in
PowerPoint 2002 / XP crashes when renumbering slides
PowerPoint crashes while opening certain presentations
PowerPoint crashes or becomes non-responsive when searching for More Auto-Shapes
PowerPoint starts then immediately quits or crashes
Specific Error Messages [Top]
PPT2003 - Can't access [filename] because the filename is invalid
"The files cannot be copied to the temporary folder" message while using Package for CD
"invalid product key" error message when starting Office 2003 program
Error message: Microsoft Office PowerPoint can't display clip art.
"Could not load an object" or "some controls on this presentation cant be activated" messages
"\\Server\Share does not have enough free space" error when using Pack and Go
Message re "installing Microsoft Graph" when you doubleclick a graph to edit it
Error message: The address of this site is not valid. Check the address and try again.
"Hidden Console of WOW VDM" error messages when installing under NT4
"Can't Display the Template Used in This Document. Windows Installer Error 1605."
Internet Explorer Cannot Download error message
QuickTime and a TIFF (or JPEG) decompressor are needed to see this picture
Error message: NTSC decompressor needed to see this picture
PowerPoint Has Encountered an Error and Must Close
"PowerPoint can't create a hyperlink to" or message about hlink.dll
What DLL came with which software?
CLSCentralAddInn - run-time error '5' Invalid procedure call or argument
"Some files can contain viruses ..." message when clicking a hyperlink
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error messages
Files open as Read-Only after installing Windows XP SP1, Other file/path related problems
This command is not available because the document is locked for edit
"Server Not Found" messages after installing Office XP SP2 or Office 2000 SP3
Warning messages about PDFMaker after installing SP2 for Office XP
Registration wizard appears every time you start PowerPoint
"R6025 - pure virtual function call" message when starting PowerPoint
FretrySdmError SDM Alert error message
PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by [FILENAME]
PowerPoint found an error that it can't correct
"PowerPoint couldn't translate this file" when opening presentation in PPT97
The file "xxx" is stored on a disc named [something cryptic]. Please insert this disc.
Unable to launch software component to play [sound name]
Unable to Insert a Movie from the Selected File
Create MPEG 32 task_cmd is not successful
Insufficient Memory message when adding an Organization Chart
Org Chart and error messages referring to GDI
Macro security warning when no macros are present
"Insufficient memory to perform this operation" message when printing from Photo Editor
"IE 3.0 or higher is required" message when accessing help via the Office Assistant
Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object
This application must be installed to run. Please run Setup ...
Path to the Proplus.msi file (you receive a prompt for this)
The system cannot open the device or file specified
The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.
This patch package could not be opened. Verify that ...
This presentation might contain Far East (or Asian) text and formats that PowerPoint can't display
"An unexpected error occurred" then "I/O Error 6" or "I/O Error 0"
Graphics Problems [Top]
Fuzzy or low quality preview pictures / thumbnails
Flipped images, upside-down images
Can't crop pictures (or make them transparent)
Transparent areas of graphics turn black
PNG images appear too dark or too light
Can't make white colors become transparent in PowerPoint 2002/XP
Clip Art/Clip Gallery/Design Gallery problems
Problems with EMF (Enhanced Metafile) graphics
EPS graphics don't print or don't print correctly
Microsoft Office Picture Manager Opens Slowly
TIFFs exported from PowerPoint won't open in other applications
Display, Screen Show & Multimedia Problems [Top]
Slide sorter displays slides from right to left
What MPG formats can PowerPoint play?
Can't open modify password protected presentation in Viewer
Text bunches up at left of slide
Mysterious text appears, slides advance unexpectedly (Ghosties Ex Machina)
Grid appears in pasted/linked Excel worksheets
Pen doesn't work during slide show in PowerPoint 2003
Video/Movie plays full screen when projected
PowerPoint displays a presentation in B/W, won't show it in color
Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a presentation
Videos play correctly on computer but not on projector (black box)
Animated text goes jagged in Screen Show
Can't run slideshow / screen show won't start; Icon appears on task bar
PowerPoint locks up when running a presentation non-stop
Can I play DVDs in PowerPoint?
Problems with movies in PPT presentations
Animations, Sounds, Movies play only once
AVIs don't play or don't play all the way through
MUSHY/BLURRY GRAPHICS in PowerPoint
Slide View is gone. I want it back!
I don't like PPT2000's 3-pane view. I want my old view back.
Problems with Organization Chart (OrgChart)
Lines in PowerPoint 2000 tables have arrowheads
White line appears at bottom of screen during slide show
Corrupted or unopenable PPT files [Top]
I accidentally deleted my file
Can't remove password in PowerPoint XP
Recovering a corrupt presentation
Images that appear corrupted, image files that won't import
HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
Printing & File Saving Problems [Top]
PowerPoint suddenly can't open or save files
Gradient transparency doesn't print properly
Can't print password protected PowerPoint files from PowerPoint 2002 (XP)
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
B/W printouts don't look right
Margins are wrong, printout is off-center, can't print to edge, printing is cut off
PowerPoint prints landscape slides in portrait mode (or vice versa)
Slides don't print on notes pages
Can't print or save from PowerPoint 2002 (XP) or 2003
PowerPoint hangs when I save a file
Printed presentations don't match what I see on screen
Pictures print blue on Canon Laser Copier
A particular slide won't print
Link & Copy/Paste Problems [Top]
Excel info cut off or cropped when pasted into PowerPoint
Excel content turns black and white (B&W), loses color when copy/pasted into PowerPoint
Making WORD TABLES look good in PowerPoint
Problems with LINKED EXCEL CHARTS in PowerPoint
Resizing info pasted from Excel makes text sizes go crazy
Problems with fonts in embedded charts/spreadsheets, etc.
Graphs don't update automatically
Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
Hyperlinks don't work after copy/paste
File Import / Export Problems [Top]
Don't make me store my pictures in My Pictures
Problems with PowerPoint on the Web [Top]
I can't save as HTML from PowerPoint 97
Graphics are missing, replaced with white box
Text or Font Problems [Top]
Text size or other formatting is lost when you save, close, and reopen a presentation
Text box won't AutoFit to Text
Text is right to left, bullets appear on right of text
Text changes size after saving and reopening a file
Text disappears when I edit it
Backspace key produces empty square box character
PowerPoint adds space before apostrophe
Text disappears when ungrouping WMFs or pasted drawings
Cross-Version / Cross-Platform Problems [Top]
Page Size changes between PowerPoint 2002 and older versions
Prevent PowerPoint XP from converting OrgCharts to XP format
Missing Features [Top]
Where is the Carnegie Coach in the AutoContent Wizard?
Animation, Password, Multiple Master features unavailable in PowerPoint 2002/2003
Macro recorder toolbar disappears
Misc. Nuisances [Top]
Height and Width are blank in AutoFormat dialog box
Office shapes move or duplicate themselves when I click them (VISTA)
PowerPoint displays a "Set Profiles first, please" message at startup.
PowerPoint icon disappears from Programs and Start lists
Can't open attached presentations from within Outlook Express after applying Windows XP SP2
Programs slow down after applying Windows XP SP1
PowerPoint ruler shows inches instead of centimeters (cm). Or vice versa.
There's no title master in my presentation
Can't use my custom Blank Presentation after applying the SR-2 patch
