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Displaying Powerpoint slides on second monitor non-sequentially using VBScript

If a Powerpoint presentation is not currently displayed - how can I display (for example) slide 7 of 10 on the secondary monitor, using vbscript? ...

How to do a presentation for your co-workers containing lots of code?

I'm supposed to do a presentation for my co-workers on a web framework I evaluated. These people are developers and hate long and boring PowerPoint stuff, so I got lots of little code snippets. I also put together a small sample application. My question is, how do I present the code so people can follow? Some things I thought of: Put ...

Running PowerpointViewer.exe inside a .Net form

I have: 1 Form 1 Panel I do this with no issue: Run notepad.exe and get it to run inside the panel, no problems. however, running either the 2003 or 2007 viewer I get it to launch but not inside the form. (sample code below) //DLL Import using System.Runtime.InteropServices; [DllImport("user32.dll")] static extern In...

An automated way to load multiple images into PowerPoint on different pages?

I need to load about 60 images, each on a different page, in to PowerPoint. Does anyone know of an "automated" way to do this. I don't want to go through slide by slide, and have to click "load image" on each one. If it was a one-time thing, I wouldn't worry about it, but we're summarizing results from some analysis that is ongoing a...

Creating powerpoint presentations programmatically

Is there a way to programmatically create PowerPoint presentations. If possible I'd like to use C# and create PowerPoint 2003 presentations. ...

Trapping MouseOver, of an object in PowerPoint

Can I trap the mouseover somehow, of an object in PowerPoint. In my PowerPoint addin, I want to be able to know when the mouse is over which object. The objects are not activex, they are built-in standard objects (pictures, etc...) for any powerpoint. I need to do this in design mode, of the presentation, not in run/presentation mode. ...

Trapping a DoubleClick in PowerPoint 2007

The Application.WindowBeforeDoubleClick event for PowerPoint 2007 appears to not work (see here to verify my claims). It works in PowerPoint 2003, but not in 2007 (contrary to the documentation). I'm looking for anything, that will trap the double click event in PowerPoint, such as: C++ code (ideally) A macro, VBA, something similar T...

Diff for Powerpoint

In Word, there is an option to compare two documents and find out the differences between the two documents. I'm looking for a similar function to compare two Powerpoint documents. Ideally, it would list the individual slides that are different, the differences in each slide between the versions and when the changes were made. However, I...

How can I add a picture into a placeholder using PowerPoint 2003 VBA?

I am trying to create PowerPoint slides using MATLAB. It seems like it is basically the same as using VBA to create PowerPoint slides, except with slightly different syntax. The function and variable names are all the same. Anyway....I can add a picture to a slide. I can also add a specific layout, which creates some placeholders. But I...

What is the best way to access a serial port from VBA?

What is the best way to access a serial port from VBA? I have a need for some of our sales reps to be able to send a simple string over the serial port from an action button in PowerPoint. I don't commonly use VBA, especially for anything like this. Normally I would turn it into an application of some sort, but I actually don't think th...

PowerPoint and WPF

I really need a way of loading a .ppt document in my wpf application. Can anyone give me a hint, code sample? ...

How to get the running version of Power Point using C++ unmanaged?

Hi Guys, I am using C++ unmanaged with Power Point (2003 and 2007). How do I get the running version of Power Point (2003 or 2007) with IDispatch? Thanks, any help would be awesome. ...

How to detect PowerPoint 2007 from a C++ addin?

I need to detect if my addin is in PowerPoint 2007 via my C++ addin. The PowerPoint object model exposes Application.Version, which should work, but I do not know enough about how to use this with IDispatch. How to detect PowerPoint 2007 from a C++ addin? ...

Can PHP read text from a PowerPoint file?

I want to have PHP read an (uploaded) powerpoint presentation, and minimally extract the text from each slide (grabbing more info like images and layouts would even be better, but I would settle for just the text at this point). I know that google apps does it in its presentation app, so I am guessing there is some way to translate the ...

How do I disable/remove menu item "PowerPoint Options" in PowerPoint 2007?

I'm trying to lock down PowerPoint and I can get rid of some of the commands by using some ribbon-customization xml and group policies. But I need to remove or disable two more options. PowerPoint Options - This button shows when you click on the Office icon This item is also available in Word (Word Options) and Excel (Excel Options), ...

Create custom shape or connector in PowerPoint using code/script/definition

The shapes in in PowerPoint 2007 seem to be built in - is there a way to create 'user'/'custom' shapes? I wanted to create a custom connector, but knowing if you can create a custom shape, could be handy in the future. ...

Create PowerPoint 2007 presentation from a template

Hi, I need to create a PowerPoint 2007 presentation from a template with Open XML Format SDK 2.0. The template has to be provided by the customer and is used for a individual layout style (font, background color or image,...). It needs to contain two predefined slides: Text slide Image slide The application should now create a copy ...

Powerpoint Interop fails in a Windows Service but works fine in a Windows Form application

I've written an application to watch a folder, and whenever a PowerPoint document is dropped into it, it goes through the slides within it and generates png images of each slide. This works fine in a windows forms application but I've put exactly the same code in a windows service, used the same test file and it fails to open it with the...

Is it possible to convert PowerPoint to images programatically?

I'm wondering if it is possible to convert a slideshow from PowerPoint (ppt/pptx) to a series of images (jpeg/png) (one for each slide)? Are there any libraries that do this out there (C#, C/C++, Ruby)? ...

How to programatically re-enable documents in the MS Office list of disabled files

MS Office programs keep a list of disabled files that have caused errors when previously opened. A user can remove documents from this list by accessing the list through the program menu and selecting a document to be re-enabled. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286017) The question is: How can this re-enabling of documents be accompl...