Digital Studio's PowerPoint FAQ's

- General

Newsgroup Etiquette
Newsgroup Access
Problem information form
How do I get the most out of the PowerPoint newsgroup?

- Graphics and Images

How can I improve image resolution when I save a slide as an image in PowerPoint 2003?
Where can I find Harvey Balls?
3D graphics in PowerPoint
Design Gallery
How do I give my Cycle Diagrams arrowheads?
Animated GIF's
Animated Gifs Look Choppy In PowerPoint
Free Templates

- KB Articles

Overview of the Office 2003 Hotfix: October 15, 2003
Keyboard impact on spell checker
hlink.dll problem
Memory Problems with Org Chart
Org. Chart - problem with privileges
Office 2000 Default States for "Install Now" Installs
Problem - create mpeg32 task_cmd is not successful
Slide Transitions
Links don't work

- Keyboard Shortcuts

Documented Shortcuts
Undocumented Shortcuts

- Links

Quick Links
PowerPoint FAQ's page - Save it to your Favorites
Shyam's site - Our VBA guru
Geetesh's Site - A great source for PowerPoint users
QuickTime - by Geetesh
How can I create an autorun CD?
Video Conversion
Analog Clock - by Chirag
PrezGuard Pro - Protect your presentation from editing.
Rick Turoczy - Flash expert
PowerPoint for Macs newsgroup
What is OLE?

- Miscellaneous

Test for updates to Office
Uninstalling Office 97
Uninstalling Office 2000
"Powerpoint found an errror it can't handle."
Getting a KB article
Where do I store templates?
How to view a PPT 2002 presentation on Web?
Mouse disappears
Where can I find Arial Unicode font
How to run multiple slide shows
How do I tell Microsoft what I want?
How to recover a button in the Standard Toolbar
How to add a Title Master
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\POWERPNT.EXE is not a valid Win 32 application.
How to make a screen shot
Can't see white text!
How to set the View in PPT2000 to other than Normal
Producer
My menu selections have disappeared.
Registry settings for CD autorun
Relative Links
Win98/ME - CD doesn't autorun
Runtime error 76 in Autorun CD Project Creator
What version of DirectX is installed?

- Multimedia

What codecs are installed on my system?
How do I determine what codec was used when my media file was created?
Where can I find the codecs for Windows Media Player?
Active Movie
Where are the win.ini and system.ini MCI settings in WindowsXP?
How Can I remove Windows Media Player 9
How can I convert an AVI
Message: Vids:dvsd decompressor not available
Message: Cannot find vids:mjpg decompressor
PowerPoint or the Viewer Freezes
Play sounds across multiple slides
Midi
What can I use to make movies?
Movie Troubleshooter
AVI or MPG doesn't work and links are "relative"
PowerPoint to DVD
VCD, DVD, etc.
Flash
How to control volume in PowerPoint
AVI files are NOT the same.
Other good links

- Newsgroups

Microsoft Newsgroups

- Org Chart

How to re-register Org Chart
Message: The server application, source file, or item cannot be found.
Message: Unable to load MS Organization Chart, Press F1 for Help
Message: Not enough memory
Message: Any referring to GDI

- PDF

How can I insert a PDF page on a slide?

- PPT2002

Organization Charts from PowerPoint 2000 Appear Different in PowerPoint 2002
FAQ's and Links
Animated GIF Bug

-PPT2003

Office 2003 Critical Update
Locating and storing your templates
Package for CD - 2003
How to change resolution of slide exported as picture

- Producer

Newsgroup

- Sounds

Which sound files are embedded?
Codecs
PPT97 - Last track of CD won't insert
2002 - Volume control
XP - Making sound play continuously through presentation.
Pre-XP - Making sound play continuously through presentation.
Sound is out of synch on my CD
Links for educators

- Templates

How to find where templates are stored.
Legacy Templates
My Templates

- Tips and Tricks

Make a presentation from a text file
Skipped slides or jerkiness - Windows XP or Windows 2000 machines
Org Chart - Permissions problems

- Tools

Adding multiple images to presentation

- Troubleshooting

PowerPoint 2003 Viewer says file is corrupt
Can't open PowerPoint file from Outlook Express
Preventing File Corruption
Setting the viewing application for PowerPoint files on the Web
How can I replace my PowerPoint or Office CD's?
I can't view in Slide Show mode
CD's won't autorun - Windows XP Tweak UI
CD's won't autorun - Windows XP Registry
I/O Error 0 or 6
PowerPoint prints landscape slides in portrait mode (or vice versa)
R6025 - pure virtual function call
Flipped OLE shapes
PowerPoint won't run slide show
Timings in PowerPoint 97 are different when played in later versions.
My file becomes enormous when I save it as PowerPoint 97

- Tutorials

Autorun CD
Creating Single ASF Files from a Playlist
Establish "relative" links
How can I add another presentation and retain a different template?
How to create "Live Notes"
How to create a scrolling text box
How to make animation work upon return?
HyperSnap-DX for PowerPoint Users
Launch
Locating and storing your templates - 2003
Locating and storing your templates - 97, 2000, 2002
Moving and Arranging Objects
Microsoft PowerPoint and Multimedia
Package for CD - 2003
PowerLink
PowerLink Plus
PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
Quick Tricks
Recording your PowerPoint Presentation to VHS
Selecting Objects
Sound - The Basics
Synchronizing Sound, Video, Animation, etc.
Using and Creating Templates

- Video

Record presentation to VHS
PowerPoint on TV
Jumpy video and/or audio

- Viewer

2003 Viewer - Digital certificate invalid
The new PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
New Viewer - Command Line Switches
What the PowerPoint 97 Viewer doesn't do
Mac Version
Timings
Where to find the PowerPoint 97 Viewer

- Windows 2000

Can't open Org Chart

- Windows XP

Turn Off Error Reporting

- XP

Upgrading qualifications
SP2 - Problem with OLE objects
SP-1 - Office XP
Activating "autorun" for CD drives
Viewing PPT2002 presentations on a website
What XP animations will work with the Viewer?
How to get rid of thumbnails in Insert > Picture
How to make a "rollover" button
XP - Flipped Images