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useful,

Interesting thread….. it’s really tedious inserting a picture and re-sizing it, or new slide > layout, so I can understand your need to ‘try the macro’ thing.

I find Steve R’s…. page on how to use this vba/macro stuff in powerpoint really useful…

How do I use VBA code in PowerPoint?

Cheers

Brent,

Fellow ppt mvp Glenna Shaw has it all mapped out here….
http://www.pptmagic.com/articles/dynamicppt.htm%5B/url%5D

If it cannot be done using regular powerpoint, then follow the links in the visual basic section….

Cheers

Ronny,

the hyperlink ‘space’ does have a limit… see

Lost hyperlinks, hyperlinks link to wrong place, hyperlinks stop working
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00401.htm%5B/url%5D

then
Convert slide titles to shapes to solve hyperlink limit problems
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00683.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

Chuck,

How very weird! On my tests saving any thing (pies / text etc) from powerpoint 97, as “filetype” gif, produces a file called
filename.PG, (that’s Pee Gee Comma) as the extension.

The file is really a JPG and not a GIF.

I don’t know what the answer is. I cannot find any mention of this problem on microsoft.com (as per usual).

My guess, is that it’s something to do with Service Release 2, or another MS security patch….as I’m pretty sure it used to work just fine on ppt 97.

My tests all worked on ppt 2003

Cheers

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Ronny,

You need to play “let’s hunt the font”… see

Troubleshoot font problems
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00402.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

egghead,

This looks like a problem with your “graphics card” drivers. Probably best to update them to the latest version for your particular graphics card (e.g. ati / nvidia) and version of windows/osx

Something else to try is this…
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

Ronny,

There is an option in powerpoint to “embed” fonts. It’s normally mentioned in powerpoint when you do a
File menu > Save As…..

However, some fonts have restrictions stopping them from being embedded.

To learn everything there is to know about including the fonts with your presentation… see Embedding fonts http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

Ronny,

OK – This is all new to me. The x-bar symbol is exactly what it says on the tin. An X with a ‘bar’ along the top edge.

A quick search through fonts already installed on my PC reveals that the x-bar character is in a font called

MS Reference 1

The MS is a clue that the font is from microsoft.
A search on google reveals that fonts comes with Encarta.
This page confirms that: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/…uct.aspx?PID=73%5B/url%5D

My PC came installed with Encarta Encyclopedia standard edition 2005. So that’s probably why the font is installed on my PC.

Revealed on the same google search is this page http://www.has.vcu.edu/che/Vallarino/font_install.htm%5B/url%5D

Entering a regular lower case x in powerpoint using the MS reference 1 fonts results in the X-bar character.

Cheers

John,

From reading this page…. this addin will show multiple presentations on all your available multiple monitors…
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html%5B/url%5D

Cheers

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Jerome,

Not free
A font conversion utility
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/TransType/%5B/url%5D

a fully featured font editor (not cheap)
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/FontLab-4.6/%5B/url%5D

Further convertors…
http://free-font-tools.com/Convertors/convertors.html%5B/url%5D

Cheers

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Jerome,

I’ve not heard of such a utility. What I have seen in the past, is “font editing” software, that allows the opening of fonts (e.g. in postscript format), and the saving in another format (e.g. truetype). As you probably know most truetype fonts can be embedded in powerpoint files.

You will of course have to refer to your font license for your postscript fonts to see if this is allowed.

Read more about embedding fonts
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

AlanChris,

PowerPoint can be a bit fussy on play sounds and videos.

What version of powerpoint are you using? (not to be confused with the version of windows). See help menu > about.

How are you inserting the sounds into powerpoint? The preferred method is “insert menu > sounds > from file”.

>I have recently recorded sounds as wavs and mp3s
What software did you use to do this, and what format did you save the sound? e.g. wav , stereo, 44khz, microsoft ADPCM etc

Cheers

mickeytor

I don’t know how to loop a set of animations on 1 slide within a presentation, but I know how to make another presentation loop, and link it seamlessly to your main presentation… see
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointlooping.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

sloucho84,

No need to convert the movie file to anything else. If you get these error messages when you try to drag and drop an AVI video clip. “Video not available, cannot find vids:mjpeg decompressor” or “Cannot display this type of sound or movie” or “MMSYSTEM006 There is no driver installed on your system”. Or if you “insert movie from file” and powerpoint simply ignores you. Then try this mjpg mpeg tip that is so simple I was gobsmacked/astounded.

Rename the file from a .AVI to .MPG – That’s it!
(even renaming the file to .QT .MOV .m1v works). We found that you tend to have a greater success rate with AVI files from digital cameras that create movies. We believe this is because most of them use the Motion jpeg codec or mjpeg for short.

Cheers

Ed,

Have you thought about using the “visible” technique in VBA?

You could have all the text objects on the slide, then by making them all invisible, until you click the relevant text box above, then make the correct text box visible for each whatever the user clicked (that triggers the macro).

With ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.Presentation.Slides(“YourName”)
.Shapes(“YourObjectName”).Visible = False

With ActivePresentation.SlideShowWindow.Presentation.Slides(“YourName”)
.Shapes(“YourObjectName”).Visible = True

Cheers