powerpoint

how to hyperlink to a specific slide of a .ppt file

i want to link to a specific slide in a an online powerpoint file. for example, the presentation link may be http://www.whatever.com/hello.ppt and i want to link to slide #4. so when people click on my link, it goes straight to the 4th slide. is this possible?...

Technical Presentations - Can the slides work without bulleted lists?

If this isn't the type of fodder that belongs on StackOverflow, feel free to bury this question. I figured technical presentations are something that most of us do, and God knows we've all attended plenty, so I thought I'd get your feedback. I'm preparing for a technical presentation, and am wondering if I could get away with simple, e...

Embed Powerpoint into HTML

Is it possible to embed a powerpoint presentation (ppt) into a webpage (xhtml)? This will be used on a local Intranet where there is a mix of IE6 and 7 only so no need to consider other browsers. ...

MS Access Reporting - can it be pretty?

I am working on a project converting a "spreadsheet application" to a database solution. A macro was written that takes screen shots of each page and pastes them into a PowerPoint presentation. Because of the nice formatting options in Excel, the presentation looks very pretty. The problem I'm having is that I haven't ever seen an Acc...

Tools for manipulating PowerPoint files

Do you know managed tools for manipulating PowerPoint files? The tool should be 100% managed code and offer the option to handle .ppt and .pptx files. ...

ISmartTagAction::Action Target is null with PowerPoint

Is there a way for the Target parameter to reference a PowerPoint object when ISmartTagAction::Action is called by PowerPoint? I have a smart tag that will recognize text in PowerPoint but when the Action method is called the Target is null. If I do the same thing in Word the Target is set to a Word.Range object, and if I do the same th...

Win32 ShellExecute and a UNC Path

I'm writing a little macro which will fire up a flash presentation. I'm using VBA to do this inside Powerpoint 2007. I am calling the Win32 ShellExecute() routine. Everything works GREAT but when I run this from a location whose path is a UNC path (\myserver\myfolder\sample.ppt) it does not work. The ShellExecute routine expects 6 argum...

Editing Embedded PowerPoint from Excel VBA

I have an embedded PowerPoint presentation in an Excel workbook. How can I edit this (open, copy slides, add data to slides, close) using VBA? ...

VBA in PowerPoint

Could anyone recommend me a good online guide to PowerPoint VBA? Else, does anyone has advice on how to record a macro in PowerPoint? Thanks! ...

Renaming Objects in PowerPoint

Probably a very stupid question but I can't figure how to rename an object in PowerPoint.. For example all my Graphs are called by default "Graph 1" etc Could someone help me on that? Thanks! ...

PowerPoint - How can I figure out if a presentation has a password progamatically?

I'm writing an application that processes PowerPoint presentations and I'm looking into ways of detecting whether or not a PowerPoint presentation has a password if it does then stop processing it. Any thoughts? ...

Using C# to display powerpoint

Is there any good way to use a windows application written in C# to display/control a powerpoint slideshow? Ultimately I would like to show thumbnails in a form and clicking these thumbnails would advance the slides shown on a second monitor (similar to using Powerpoint itself to show a slideshow on a second monitor). I would like to be...

Best way to make a newsletter slideshow kiosk for the office?

So, I've been tasked with making a kiosk for the office for showing statistics about our SCRUM progress, build server status, rentability and so forth. It should ideally run a slideshow with bunch of different pages, some of them showing text, some showing graphs and so on. What is the best approach for this? I first thought of powerpo...

How do I capture a PowerPoint VSTO Text Changed Event?

I'm developing a PowerPoint C# VSTO add-in. I want to be able to capture a text changed event whenever the Title text of a slide is changed. How can I attach a custom event handler that will fire whenever the Title text is changed? ...

Export from PowerPoint to animated gif?

Is it possible to export a picture with custom animation from PowerPoint to an animated gif? ...

Can Silverlight apps be embedded into PowerPoint?

Can Silverlight apps be embedded into PowerPoint? We're currently weighing the pros and cons of Silverlight vs. Flash, and are primarily interested in charting controls. The higher-ups would like to have aesthetically appealing dynamic charts included in PowerPoint presentations, with the ability to migrate these over to an online solu...

Linking Powerpoint and Access through VBA?

Hi, I have a Powerpoint slide that contains textboxes. I would like to link those textboxes with a filtered view of a data table in Access. For ex, if I had a TaskList application in Access that displayed tasks with different priorities and affectations; is there a way to open that file, select that view, and filter it according to a v...

Defining macros in Power Point 2007?

It USED to be the case in Office 2003 that you could find "macros" and -- IIRC -- you had a "record macro" option. But, in PowerPoint 2007, under View->Macros, you get a macro box. None of the options are "record". If you put in a name, you can select "create", but that takes you to the VB editor. If you edit the slide manually, it does...

asp.net - Generate Powerpoint file on the fly

I have a client of my web based application who heavily uses the data from our system for powerpoint presentations. We currently allow data to export in more traditional file types...PDF, CSV, HTML, and a few others. Powerpoint doesn't seem to be really automated. Is there a way, on the ASP.NET server side, to automate the creation an...

Generating Powerpoint PPT with Coldfusion?

Hi all, Does anyone know if it's possible to generate powerpoint ppts within ColdFusion? I can't rely on the approach of installing a copy of office and generate one through COM and I can't use ooxml since my client is still in the office 2003 era. Any suggestion is much appreciated. ...