Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / October 2007

Inside a text box in Power point I am trying to change the default shadow
color of the text to black.  My default is grey.  I don't want to change it
every time I use it.  Where do I change the default color to black in the
shadow dropdown box.

When I receive a reply email, my signature has grown in size and I
must reduce it before sending my reply. Any solutions?

In VBA, the Slide object has an export command that lets you
export a snapshot of a given slide.
   I can't seem to find something equivalent in the Applescript
object model. Am I missing something? Is there a more clever way to

I've created a power point slide show and burned it onto a CD.  When the CD
is inserted the power point file is displayed.  By double clicking (or right
clicking and then clicking on "Show") the slide show begins to play on the CD.
Is there a way to do this so that the begins ...

I'm trying to download the PPT viewer to read some lecture notes. I'm
on a Macbook running OS X 10.4. First I downloaded the viewer and it
showed an expander icon (i think) with a white circle with a slash
through it. So then I downloaded stuffit expander and was able to

I want to rotate an equation object 90 deg so it can be  the label for
a y axis on a graph.  When I select it and try the rotate menu under
the draw toolbar, it is greyed out.  If I try from the menu format/
object/ size tab, the rotate box is not accessible. I have also tried

Sorry for being absent so long... I have been ultra busy lately.
Ok... Anyone here familiar with office 2007?
Is it able to play all versions of Quicktimes? Or does it still only
use a subset of the Quicktime Standard?

In slide design pane, all slide design template and layout template preview
can't display in pane, just i can see its border.
when i click preview border, that template apply to my ppt.
just can't see preview..

I¹ve created a template in PowerPoint 2004 in which the first level bullets
are a text line with no bullet while the second, third, and other levels
have bullets, dashes, etc.
The setup looks fine on the master slide but when I try to use it in a

I have a 6 slide presentation that has hyperlink button to move between
slides. The hyperlinks all work properly in PPT but when I save as a pdf
using the Microsft PDF add-in, the links are not correct in the pdf. The
links are active in the pdf but are one slide off (i.e. ...

Does anybody know how to change the settings in Powerpoint 2004 for
mac so I can get a widescreen aspect ration on my presentation output?
thanks

We have converted everything over to 2007 however when individuals send their
PowerPoints to me they have usually been created in a lower version.  I can
open them, run them however when I look at something that should have bullets
they are not there.  I click and see that it ...

I recently bought a Canon LV-7265 projector to use to show my
powerpoint slide presentations.
It came with a battery operated remote control and a mouse receiver
device that plugs into a USB port of my MacBook Pro. According to

I recently learned that the "png" file format exists. Can someone tell me how
png differs from jpg and why I'd use one vs. the other in PowerPoint (2003)?
Does it affect file size, usability, or what? Thanks in advance.

Is there a way to get the value of the user's current resolution with
VBA? Maybe having it talk to AppleScript somehow?
I have an Add-in that does this in Windows using "user32" and "gdi32",
but I need to have it work on a Mac as well.