PowerPoint is the name of a proprietary commercial software presentation program developed by Microsoft.
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How to automatically update Excel linked in powerpoint?
I have somes Excel 2003 tables inside a PowerPoint 2003 presentation.
The Excel file has links to others Excel files like
[File2.xls]RevenueSheet!$A$1
So, when i change the value of A1 cell in ...
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Powerpoint notes print does not show slide image
I'm running Powerpoint 2010 and when I choose to print a presentation along with its notes, a few slide images (not ALL) do not print. I can see the notes for said page, and if I were to print the ...
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powerpoint transparent prints black
In Powerpoint, I have a White box with a transparent outline. This does not appear on the document, and this is deliberate, I only use the reference points for connecting lines. However, when I ...
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Running Screensaver, While Powerpoint is Open
I have a 16 monitor wide display wall. They are all 42 inch LCD televisions. They are all run from the same computer. They all run powerpoint and have the exact same outline/design, but with the ...
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In Powerpoint 2011, once I've “Rehearsed” a presentation, how do I view the analysis?
I'm using the "Rehearse" feature in Powerpoint 2011 (Mac), and I've saved the finished rehearsal timings (i.e. it prompted me after finishing the presentation). How do I view the amount of time I used ...
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How to persuade PowerPoint to reasonable behaviour while importing images
I create a PPT presentation with lots of images. When I copy the image into the slide, the image is 5x times bigger than then slide, overflowing the visible frame of course... Making it smaller takes ...
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Saving a group of images from powerpoint as a picture, and the text is gone
I'm saving a group of images/text in PowerPoint as a picture for a graduation announcement. When I open the png file after it's saved, the text of the name will not appear. I tried saving the text ...
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Some PowerPoint 2007 slides have a tiny scrollbar and scroll a long time with mouse/mousewheel
Seemingly out of the blue, slides 5 through 8 on a PPT I was working on starting exhibiting very strange behaviour. On slides 1-4, and 9-40, the vertical scroll bar is a reasonable size. When I ...
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Embedding a live Excel Calculator into Powerpoint
I am trying to set up an Auction using Powerpoint. I expect to have about 60 lots at the Auction. I have created a simple Excel programme, which has buttons to increase or decrease the current bid ...
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How can I reduce load time of website [closed]
I want to know how I can reduce the load time of a website. I have tried lots of things but am still not getting better performance. The page size is about 870kb and performance is 90 or 88 ...
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VBA code to copy command buttons
I'm stumped. Please help. What VBA code can be used to copy command buttons from one slide to another (along with the code behind them)? I think I can handle the looping, but I can't find the ...
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MS Powerpoint 2003 SP3 - can no longer paste / view screenshots in normal slide view
Wonder if anyone could help me with the following problem. I have a computer with Windows XP (SP3) / Powerpoint 2003. Many of the presentations that I created in the past (and new ones that people ...
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What is the control name
When creating new slide in powerpoint, it will always have "Click to add title" and "Click to add text" portions.
Sometimes I deleted them, if I wish to add them back, what control should I choose? ...
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How to simultaneously rename a file in MS Office and delete old version?
In Microsoft Office, when wanting to save a file to a different file name without keeping a copy of the previous file name, doing so requires two steps:
First, File -> Save As... and select the new ...
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Citation of creative commons images with Office 2013
Office 2013 (e.g., PowerPoint) allows us to Insert Online Pictures that we can find using Bing Image Search. By default, the images found using this are under Creative Commons licence. Excellent way ...
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How can I teach Powerpoint to people who have no knowledge at all about the software? [closed]
We'll be having a training here in the office on how to use Powerpoint. The audience are office employees, mostly ages 40 and up, and have no background in using Powerpoint (only MS Word and Excel). ...
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high resolution image export of powerpoint slide
I've made a collage in powerpoint and am trying to convert it into an image to send to a printer. Unfortunately, it only converts into a 3072x2304; 96 dpi image. For my print, I will need at least ...
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Powerpoint - EMF - Preserve shape properties
I created a square in Inkscape, set red fill color to it but no stroke and exported as EMF file.
I open Powerpoint (2013), inserted the EMF file to a blank page, right click the inserted picture ...
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Resize shape with text in Word 2010
I pasted a drawing from PowerPoint to Word that has shapes with text. The drawing is much too large; but when I make it smaller, the text remains the same size and ruins the layout. Is there a way of ...
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Adjusting PPT 2010 Motion Path
I have assigned a Motion Path in PPT 2010. My goal is to move an object from point A to point B. So I click the end point of the motion path and drag. Problem is, after adjusting the end point, I also ...
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PowerPoint: reuse a slide multiple times in a presentation
I'm afraid I already know the answer to this one, but wanted to be sure:
Is there any option to reuse a slide within a presentation? For example: If I have an overview slide containing the ...
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Powerpoint - How to create a custom drawing which animates as if it is drawn
I need to have a pre-created drawing in my slide. On animating, it should be drawn live on the screen. The drawing is not a straight line. It will be a custom drawing, say an apple.
Is there any way ...
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Is there an visual audit (for example alignment check) for PowerPoint
When I'm done with a presentation I would like to check for common formating mistakes such as using to many font / sizes / colors. But also check the alignment of boxes, titles etc. is there a tool ...
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Powerpoint/Impress + Video -> export as Video [closed]
The situation::
I have:
- > A video (avi or flv but its not important) WITH audio
- > A PowerPoint presentation
- > The slide-chaning times
What I want:
- A software that mix the presentation and ...
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Constructing an annual cycle/radial diagram in PowerPoint
I would like to make a diagram like the below in PowerPoint, but I can't figure out how to draw the curved boxes (like the ones that say "Fishing" or "Trapping" in the chart).
Diagram
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Display Desktopmonitor on multiple screens but with different content
Basically the idea is to have a powerpoint showing on the laptop (including an overlay timer) and this screen should be splitted into 2 different screens: 1 showing the exact duplicate of the desktop ...
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Edit points on text in powerpoint
Years ago, on the older versions of powerpoint it was relatively easy to take a text box with some text in whatever font you wanted, and easily get it to 'break down' into a shape you could 'edit ...
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How to change format in all arrows in a PowerPoint 2011 presentation?
I'm wondering if it is possible to do this.
For example, change all arrows to 3pt, yellow, with glow, no shadow, etc.
Using PowerPoint 2011 for Mac on Mountain Lion 10.8.3.
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Why are these characters shown in PowerPoint designer, but not in presentation?
I have a PowerPoint presentation styled after windows 8, and I'm using the Segoe UI Light font. These characters display correctly in design mode, but not in presentation mode. Can anyone tell me why?
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Changing pictures or text box saved in Office 2010 and opened in Office 2007
I have two computers:
Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2010.
Windows XP service pack 3 and Microsoft Office 2007
I worked on the first computer on Office 2010 and I saved in the format .pptx on ...
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How can I disable a white background of a pasted text in Powerpoint?
I'm using Powerpoint 2010. When I paste text from another source with "Keep source formatting option" I receive a white background, that I don't want.
How can I make this text background ...
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Power Point 2010 Set Up Slide Show greyed out, disabled
My PP 2010 Set Up Slide Show is not working! I used it last week, and it worked fine. Now, today, I just created another slide show. I went to rehearse timings, and the entire box is greyed out except ...
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Copy excel tables into powerpoint boxes
I used to know a feature in powerpoint that allowed the following:
copy an row of e.g. 4 excel cells
select 4 boxes in powerpoint
paste the content of the cells into the text of the 4 boxes
I'm ...
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Powerpoint Slides from Remote Host
Here is my problem:
I want to display "slides" from a projector but I will not be in the same region as the projector. Can you please suggest solutions that would allow me to amend a slideshow ...
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PowerPoint - Print all the notes of a slide
I make big notes in each slides in Power Point.
But when I print the PowerPoint, only the first page of each notes
section prints. The rest of the notes is not printed (it's just
skipped)
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What code to put in the URL to link it in a new tab?
I have a PDF file. Created from Kingsoft Presentation. I have images there, where I put hyperlinks. That is Ctrl+K then i put the link. When I converted it to PDF ang click the images, I want it to ...
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Why does Powerpoint 2010 print notes pages to PDF as raster images?
I'm trying to print a 40-slide powerpoint presentation to PDF in notes pages format, and the resulting .pdf file size is 10x bigger than the .pptx file. Acrobat's space audit says it's 99.7% image ...
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Add text to PowerPoint slide during a presentation
I'd like to add text to selected slides during my presentation. The text is based on audience feedback and is "throw-away", intended just to help with discussion and learning at the moment. The text ...
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Old Powerpoint file will not open in Office 07
How can i open .ppt files from Powerpoint MS Office 97-2003 in Office 07? Have tried several ideas from various sources but none work! Desperately need to open an old ppt file to meet a deadline in 6 ...
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VBA to change the current slide's section while in slideshow mode - PowerPoint 2010
I have a slideshow with 3 sections named "CurrentSection", "NextSection", and "AfterNextSection". The slideshow is viewed repeatedly but also irregularly (sometimes multiple times per week and ...
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Cannot use Chinese input language in PowerPoint
When I use PowerPoint, I cannot input Chinese text....it just does not do anything.
It works fine in all other Windows programs, like Word, Excel, etc...but not ppt.
Someone said to go to Language ...
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Scaling of pasted ranges from Excel to PowerPoint 2013
How can I can keep the same scale when pasting table ranges from Excel into PowerPoint 2013.
It used to work fine in PowerPoint 2007, e.g. a table 12cm wide in Excel would still be 12cm wide in ...
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Preventing Dimmed Text Before an Animation in PowerPoint 2013
In PowerPoint for office 2013, I'm using the "Quotable" template option. When I create a standard animation on text to appear, it appears greyed out before being clicked. I have to say, I think this ...
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Powerpoint 2010 - Keyboard shortcut to enable text wrapping
I'm working quite a bit in Powerpoint 2010 and I very much need a shortcut-key to activate text wrapping for a chosen shape.
Is there a keyboard shortcut-key?
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How do I play a sound in Powerpoint everytime the user visits the slide?
In Powerpoint, if a slide is reloaded the sound won't start again.
This means, that if the user goes to the next slide and then the previous, the sound won't be played again.
This is a problem, as I ...
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How can I animate a PowerPoint diagram?
I'm trying to animate a sequence diagram within a PowerPoint presentation. The idea is to animate the flow of data between the various actors of the sequence to explain how a software integrates with ...
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Excel or PPT: How to have two pie charts, but one legend
I would like to design a slide that shows two pie charts of the same size side-by-side, but with a single legend that is centered on the page beneath both charts. I can easily create one of the pies ...
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Overwrote my presentation with a new blank file, now can't recover it
I had a PowerPoint file with 140 slides that accidentally overwrote with a new blank file of the same name.
I always save my files on SharePoint but this time I forgot it.
I tested applications like ...
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Can I change the appearance of a single hyperlink in PowerPoint 2010?
Can I change the appearance of a single hyperlink in PowerPoint 2010? I don't want to change all the theme's hyperlinks.
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How to make many to many hierarchy in Powerpoint?
I am trying to create a hierarchy using SmartArt in Powerpoint. It's supposed to look like so:
One man at the very top
Two men on the second level, both with connecting lines to the top.
One man on ...
