Is there a way to set the default layout in powerpoint 2007 to "Blank"? It currently defaults to "Title slide" but I just want it to be blank every time I open it. Thanks!

Is there a way to either (1) get the scheme color used for a barchart series item Fill.Forecolor or (2) get the scheme in use (the scheme color can be pre-determined into an array) or (3) prevent screen updates in Powerpoint when changes are made from Excel through Automation (macro is in Excel making...

I have coded some Powerpoint automation using VS2008 and it works just fine on my laptop. When I deploy the project to users running PIA 2007, I get the following error: Shapes(unknown member): Integer out of range. 1 is not i in the valid range of 1 to 0. I've pinpointed the error to the following...

Experts: I have programmed an Excel 2007 Add-in using VBA. It uses automation to control PowerPoint. I wrote it on a Windows XP machine. Yesterday I tested it on a Windows 7 machine which also has Office 2007 installed. Most of my macros work, but I'm getting a bunch of "Compile Error. Cannot...

We are currently running a 6MB PowerPoint Presentation (.ppt) in Slide Show Mode continuously. Every few hours to up to a few days the slide show will freeze. It does not freeze on the same slide nor on the same transition effect. We have had this problem over the past 6 months on an older Windows 98SE...

I need help turning off the notes/outline frames in a presentation for the web. I did the following: "Go to File > Save As Web Page... Select file type "Web Page" and the location for the saved file. Then click the Publish... button, which opens a "Publish as Web Page" dialogue...

Hi Experts I am trying to control PowerPoint from Word. I have created a customised template including a customised Handouts master. I set everything up as I want it to be and have created a Theme. When I create the presentation manually from PowerPoint by clicking New and choosing the customised template...

Good day, I have been trying so long to get this to work. I have a code that will copy a chart/picture from Excel into PowerPoint but I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete the picture on the slide first. I know there is some code to do this using PPT VBA but my code is in Excel. There...

Dear expert: I created a powerpoint presentation with some internal links. I converted this .ppt to .htm (using save as... option from powerpoint) which created an htm file and a folder with all auxiliary files. When I open this main .htm on Internet Explorer, it appears 2 frames: there is an index on...

Hello, Bear with me for a moment while I explain my situation: I’m helping develop a media presentation for a planetarium. The plan is to use Powerpoint to project images and play a synchronized dialog and score audio track. At certain points in the presentation the video projector will receive cues...