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Great resourses! Thanks. I got it working!
The first link you gave me, in the upper section give specific instructions on “Two list boxes” I don’t see those I’m running Office Prof2000.

I got it to work using the second section on AutoMacros

Thanks again!

Cool! That works. I have three different date fields like that. Can I combine that into one macro?

And can I make that macro run upon opening the form?

Depending on how many slides there are in that “second” show, you can:

Create a temporary PP file and create your unique background there. Go to notepage view where you can see the small slide icon in the corner. Select and copy this image.

Go back to your original presentation, Paste the image, stretch it to fit, send it to back. You will have to do this on every slide, so your file will grow some. This isn’t the greatest solution, but I’ve used it for 10-20 slides without issue.

First caveat: I know nothing about Freelance.

In PP’97 there is an “Expand slide” option. It creates a new slide for each bullit point on the slide you expand. The point becomes the slide title and any sub points move up. In fact if you just imagine each level on the slide getting “promoted” one step you can see what happens.

This feature was removed in PP2000, basically because you don’t need it. Create a slide with 5 points on it, each point having at least one sub point.

Duplicate the slide. On the second slide, select the text under the slide title (don’t select the slide title) in the OUTLINE WINDOW. Press Shift/Tab and the same event will occur.

The dimming/animation of the slide can be set on your slide master and will control the latter part of your question.

Hope this helps.

Yes it does. No it doesn’t. I’m still learning VB, so I hope you understand my “greeness”. Here’s my code with your line copied in that doesn’t work:
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Sub Add_6_Months()
Dim mbefore As Date
mbefore = Format(DateAdd(“m”, 6, Date), “dd mmmm yyyy”)
Selection.InsertBefore mbefore
wdGoToBookmark Name:=”Six_Months”
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The “mbefore” and the rest of this code came from the web site referenced in a response above. I honestly don’t understand the “Insert”, as I would think that would do the insert.

I’ve moved the statement you gave me around, but still get a “compile error, invalid use of property” error.

More help please!

I went to the link supplied and copied the prevmonth macro and with editing can make it go ‘ahead’. But how can I tell it where to put it in my document. Right now it just dumps wherever my cursor is. Yes, I am new to VB!

Thanks for the help. Why does everything have to be so difficult? You should be able to do “Today +180”, but that would be too simple!

Thanks again

The other unfortunate part of this dilema is that the faster your processor and the more video memory you have (Read: The newer your computer) the worse this problem is. The above listed allows your PC to better handle graphics and therefor it can draw/display them more quickly.

I wish you could set the time for the transition to last like you can set the time between auto-animation.

I believe you can copy a background to another presentation, but it will take on the color scheme of the new one. THerefore it’s not necessarliy easy thing to do. Any elements on the slide background can be copied and pasted. The actual background cannot and must be recreated.

I always have blank slides at the end of my presentations, maybe 5. This way I end when I want to and have several “opps” slides to help me. THEN I create custom slides AFTER that for situations like this.

Duplicate the original slide, move it to after your ‘presentation’, Modify the text in the box. Then make that slide a custom show. On the box in your presentation,(the original slide) Hyperlink to a custom show. This custom show is put together from the slide(s) you’re modifying.

Now during your presentation, you can skip right over that box if you wish because it’s not part of your “current presentation”, but if you move your mouse over it, you’ll get the ‘hand’–click and it starts the custom show which is really just a duplicated slide with text shown in the same spot. When you click again the custom show will end and the text will disappear as you’ll be back on the slide you came from.

I believe you need something called an “.inf” file or equivalent. It gives the OS instructions on what to do with the data on the CD.

You can also save the PPT file as a “.pps” which makes the file run automatically when double-clicked.