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You receive a "PowerPoint can't open the type of file" error message when you open a PowerPoint presentation in a version that is earlier than PowerPoint 2002  
Explains that you cannot open a PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003, or PowerPoint 2002 presentation in an earlier version of PowerPoint if the presentation is assigned a password. ... This behavior occurs when you attempt to open password-protected PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003, or ...  

A presentation that is saved on a floppy disk, a CD-R, or a ZIP disk may not display pictures in PowerPoint  
Steps to reproduce the problem PowerPoint 2007 Create the following folder: C:\ Test Copy any picture into the C:\ Test folder. ... In PowerPoint 2007, use the Insert and Link option. MORE INFORMATION Steps to reproduce the problem PowerPoint 2007 Create the ...  

The text disappears from a photo album slide after you update the slide in PowerPoint  
Steps to reproduce the problem PowerPoint 2007 Start PowerPoint 2007 to open ... Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 To add text for the first time, follow these steps: On the Slides pane, right-click the slide, point to Layout , and then click Title Slide under Office Theme . 

You cannot see all frames of an animation, transition, or movie in PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003  
When you are in Presenter view in Microsoft PowerPoint, you may be able to see only a small percentage of the frames in an animation, transition, or movie.  

Multimedia playback is delayed during a slide show in PowerPoint 2003  
Explains that a multimedia file may not replay as expected when you view a PowerPoint slide show. ... and View the Presentation As a Web Page Note Web browsers do not use Media Control Interface (MCI), the Microsoft Windows internal multimedia player that is used by PowerPoint, to handle ...  

Inserted movies appear grainy when played in PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003  
Explains that a movie clip that you inserted on a slide in PowerPoint may appear to be distorted, grainy, or pixilated. However, it plays well if you play it outside PowerPoint. ... if the movie was saved at a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, then it would have to be scaled in PowerPoint so that ...  

When you try to insert a picture as a linked embedded object in an Office 2003 program, the picture is not inserted  
Additionally, you may experience one of the following symptoms: In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, you receive the following error message: It isn't possible to create a link to drive :\ path \ filename . ... embedded object in an earlier version of Microsoft PowerPoint, follow these ...  

How to control a Shockwave Flash Control on a slide in PowerPoint  
Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer does not support Visual Basic for Applications macros. ... the control in your slide, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 291875 How to add a Shockwave Flash control to a slide in PowerPoint 2000 and PowerPoint 2002  

Animations disappear after you modify a PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003 presentation in PowerPoint 2000  
Explains that some custom animations in a PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003 presentation are missing after you modify the presentation in PowerPoint 2000. ... This behavior can occur when you open a PowerPoint 2002 presentation in PowerPoint 2000, add ...  

Presentations print or preview with an incorrect orientation in PowerPoint  
Explains that the print orientation is not correct when you print your presentation in PowerPoint if the printer drivers do not interpret the orientation correctly. ... PowerPoint 2002 and later versions change the way PowerPoint sends print information to the printer driver.  

When you rotate the screen orientation to portrait orientation, the slide shows appears in the original screen orientation in PowerPoint 2003  
Describes the problem where when you rotate a monitor to portrait orientation, PowerPoint 2003 slide shows display sideways. ... If you are using PowerPoint 2003 on a Tablet PC, use the following workaround: On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show .  

The design features in a design template are not applied to a slide in PowerPoint  
You create a Microsoft PowerPoint design template. ... By default, when you create a design template, PowerPoint saves the ... After you quit and restart PowerPoint, the new design template is available in the Slide Design task pane. ... a design template in PowerPoint 2002 or in PowerPoint 2000, click ...  

You can open password-protected file without a password in PowerPoint 2002  
Discusses how, in some circumstances, you may open a password-protected file without a password in PowerPoint 2002. ... For example, if you use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) script to open a password-protected presentation file, PowerPoint is started ...  

You receive a cannot find the specified file error message when you play a presentation with embedded sounds on another computer in PowerPoint 2003  
error message when you play a PowerPoint 2003 presentation with embedded sounds. ... Use the Package for CD Feature to Move Files PowerPoint 2003 has ... Note This will package the presentation for either a folder or a CD. By default, linked files and the PowerPoint Viewer are ...  

Multimedia playback may delay during slide show in PowerPoint 2002  
Explains that the multimedia file may be delayed when you play back a PowerPoint 2002 slide that contains animations and multimedia. ... This behavior occurs because MCI (the Microsoft Windows internal multimedia player used by PowerPoint) takes several ...  

HOW TO: Add Custom Values to Animation Effect Options in PowerPoint 2002  
Example of Custom Timing Values The following example shows how to create custom timing values for an animated rectangle: Start Microsoft PowerPoint 2002.  

Screen resolution is not restored when you switch to another program from a slide show in PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003  
Describes a problem that occurs when the screen resolution is not restored when you press ALT+TAB to switch from PowerPoint to another program. ... This behavior occurs because when you run a slide show, PowerPoint changes the screen resolution to match the setting of the slide show resolution.  

PPT2002: Macro Run-Time Error: The Item with the Specified Name Wasn't Found  
In Microsoft PowerPoint, when you record a macro to insert an object into a presentation slide, and you then run the macro, you may receive a run-time error message similar to the following: The item with the specified name wasn't found. ... as in the following example: Start PowerPoint, and then ...  

Windows Media Player files (.asf files) are not recognized as sound files in PowerPoint 2002  
Explains that you cannot insert an Advanced Streaming Format (.asf) file that contains only an audio track into a presentation from the Insert Sound dialog box in PowerPoint 2002. ... Because PowerPoint uses the ... therefore PowerPoint treats it as a video format.  

Black flash before a movie runs when you view a PowerPoint presentation in Internet Explorer  
When you create a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint and view the presentation as a Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer, any slide that contains an inserted movie flashes a black screen for about one second before the movie starts to play....  

How to play media clips in PowerPoint by using Windows Media Player  
This article describes how to play media clips in Microsoft PowerPoint by using Windows Media Player. Some media clips that were created after PowerPoint was released may not play properly when they are inserted into PowerPoint. ... describes how to play media clips in Microsoft PowerPoint by using ...  

How to re-register PowerPoint 2002  
Explains how to run the PowerPoint 2002 Setup program or the Office XP Setup program to re-register PowerPoint to make sure that the PowerPoint keys are correct. ... When you start Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, it does not make sure that all the keys it writes to the Windows Registry are correct.  

PPT2002: Black and White or Grayscale Slides Displayed in Color When Sent to Word  
In earlier versions of PowerPoint, slides sent to Word in Grayscale view appear in black...  

Text is animated off-screen when you use the Magnify effect in PowerPoint  
When you create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and then animate a text frame using the Magnify Entrance effect, part of the animation occurs below the bottom edge of the screen. ... For example, the standard PowerPoint slide is 7.5 inches tall;  

You receive an error message when you try to open an Office document or start Outlook  
PowerPoint can't read the document path to file . ... When you try to open a design template or try to apply a design template in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, you ... It may not be a PowerPoint presentation. ... recovering data from damaged Excel 2000 workbooks Microsoft PowerPoint For more ...  

PPT2002: Control Bar Appears When Video Clip Is Played  
When you have a video in a PowerPoint presentation as a media clip object, a control bar may appear during a slide show when the video clip is played. ... To hide the controls when playing a media clip, follow these steps: Start PowerPoint, and then open the presentation.  

Text animations in rotated text box do not work when viewed as Web presentation in PowerPoint  
When you view a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation as a Web presentation in your Web browser, some animations applied to text in a rotated text box may not work. ... For more information on other differences between a PowerPoint presentation and ...  

How to extract information from Office files by using Office file formats and schemas  
Describes several methods for extracting file format or schema information for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, or Microsoft Word. ... With Office Open XML, you can use all the features in the 2007 Microsoft Office programs to create documents.  

How to use the WebBrowser control on a slide  
The code in this article demonstrates how to display a live Web page on a slide during a PowerPoint slide show, using the Microsoft WebBrowser ActiveX control. ... The code in this article demonstrates how to display a live Web page on a slide during a PowerPoint slide show ...  

You cannot use Photo Editor to save image from the Clipboard in Office  
Describes why you may not find Photo Editor to save your image on to the Clipboard. Photo Editor is removed when you upgrade to Office 2003. Workaround provided using Office Picture Manager, Clip Organizer, or Paint.  

The background is not printed when you use a black and white printer to print a PowerPoint presentation that contains a colored background  
Describes the behavior where PowerPoint does not print a colored background to a black and white printer. ... This behavior occurs because PowerPoint optimizes the way that slides that contain colored backgrounds are printed to black and white printers.  

You receive a Windows cannot print error message when you print a large presentation in PowerPoint 2003  
Describes how you receive a "Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup" error message when you print a presentation with large graphics in PowerPoint 2003. ... This behavior occurs when the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation contains ...  

Description of how to use the Package for CD feature in PowerPoint 2003  
Describes how to put a presentation on a CD in PowerPoint 2003 when you are using Windows 2000. This article lists steps that you can use to save a presentation as a package in PowerPoint 2003. This article describes how to use the Package for CD feature in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.  

PowerPoint cannot load an add-in when you lower the macro security level  
Steps to Reproduce the Problem PowerPoint 2007 Start PowerPoint 2007. ... To remove the add-in in PowerPoint 2007, follow these steps: Click the Microsoft Office Button , click PowerPoint Options , and then click Add-Ins . ... To add the add-in in PowerPoint 2007, follow these ... 

How to convert a Corel presentation to PowerPoint 2003 format  
You can insert the graphic from the Corel presentation slide into a PowerPoint 2003 presentation. This article describes how to convert a Corel presentations slide to a .jpeg graphic to be inserted into a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation.  

How to add a Shockwave Flash control to a slide in PowerPoint 2000 and PowerPoint 2002  
Explains that how to add a Macromedia Shockwave Flash ActiveX control to a slide in PowerPoint 2000 and PowerPoint 2002 and connect the control to the Shockwave Flash Animation file. Only PowerPoint 97 and later can use ActiveX controls. ... NOTE : Neither the PowerPoint viewer nor ...  

How to insert Adobe Acrobat Reader .pdf files or parts of .pdf files in a slide in Microsoft PowerPoint  
Describes how to insert an Adobe Acrobat Reader .pdf file or parts of .pdf files in a slide in Microsoft PowerPoint. This article includes steps for pasting the text and graphics of a .pdf to PowerPoint in Adobe ... In PowerPoint, click the location in which you want to paste the image.  

How to change the resolution of a slide that you export as a picture in PowerPoint  
This step-by-step article describes how to change the resolution dots-per-inch (the dpi settings) of exported slides by adding a new registry value for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 or for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. ... PowerPoint\Options PowerPoint 2007 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software ...  

You receive an error message when you print a large presentation in PowerPoint 2003  
Explains that you receive a "Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup" error message when you try to print a large presentation in PowerPoint 2003. ... This issue may occur if the PowerPoint 2003 presentation ... Start PowerPoint 2003, and ...  

A MPEG video does not play, and you may receive an error message in the Mciqtz32.dll module in PowerPoint  
Describes an issue when you try to play a .mpg or .mpeg file in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, the video does not play and you may receive an error message in module Mciqtz32.dll.  
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