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Bad presenters (and there are lots) will not be transformed into good ones by PowerPoint.

However just give them a flip board and they will be even worse!

This question was cross posted and answered here
http://www.msofficeforums.com/powerpoint/19773-ppt-2007-ppt-2010-presentations-dont-display.html

Go to the animation pane and set it like this
36134-vid

If there are extra trigger animations you can delete them.

There may be a slight delay between the videos starting but they should basically play together

Instead of starting with the sound files in a sub folder have them in the same folder as the pps then reinsert them. See if that works.

You can only set transparancy for a command button in PPt when it is used on a userforrm (NOT a slide)

Are you sure you cannot use a standard transparent shape? It is very likely that you can. Explain what you need to code to do?

I’ll say this one more time then

DON’T USE COMMAND BUTTONS.

If your question is in eg a placeholder that is Shape2 on Slide 2 and the question is held in strQ

ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes(2).TextFrame.TextRange=strQ
SlideShowWindows(1).View.GoToSlide 2

Website adds odd spaces in T extRange – take them out

Hi njw

First there is no need at all to use command buttons in PowerPoint to run code. A standard shape will work just fine and is much easier to code.

You do not give many details:

Are you using the pseudo event OnSlideShowPageChange??

If so this is unreliable and will often not fire until other code has run. You could probably fix this by having code before the quiz e.g. “What is your name” on slide 1

2003 doesn’t really give you the option of custom layouts as in later versions

You can get close to what you ask by setting the font size to 1 point and the size to 0.01 x 0.01 and moving the palceholder on the master just off slide.

There’s no way to do this that I know of except as you say pasting the content in.

Under the hood it is different to 2003. In 2003 they really were shapes with a picture fill. From 2007 they are real pictures cropped to a shape. Might look the same but it is a little better.

You can save the code if you choose pptm as the file type.

There isn’t (the album pages have a blank master)

Open the Custom animation pane (ANIMATION TAB)

Double click the first entry for the video

Choose Effect Tab and set stop playing to “After Current Slide”

Does that work?

As far as I know you could only do this with code.

Sub fixtext_Album()
Dim osld As Slide
Dim oshp As Shape
Dim i As Integer
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oshp In osld.Shapes
If oshp.Type = msoGroup Then
For i = 1 To oshp.GroupItems.Count
If oshp.GroupItems(i).HasTextFrame Then
With oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font
.Color.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0)
.Size = 20
.Bold = True
‘and whatever
End With
End If
Next
End If
Next
Next
End Sub

How to use

What version of PowerPoint?
Are you printing in B&W?

The macro recorder in PowerPoint nearly always comes up with code you cannot use in a real situation. Sometimes it’s a useful pointer but rarely if ever robust usable code.

Try this code instead:

(ALT f11 to open the vb editor
Delete the existing code and paste in this)

Sub ab4Pic()
If ActiveWindow.Selection.Type = ppSelectionNone Then GoTo err1
If ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Count 1 Then GoTo err2
With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)
.Line.Weight = 1.5
.Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 255, 0)
.ZOrder (msoBringToFront)
End With
normalexit:
Exit Sub
err1:
MsgBox “You don’t have anything selected!”, vbCritical
GoTo normalexit
err2:
MsgBox “Select ONE shape!”, vbCritical
GoTo normalexit
End Sub