I have an installer that puts Powerpoint 2007 viewer onto the PC. It then opens a powerpoint file. The problem is the PPT viewer needs to have a user accept the licence agreement before the PPT file will display. Is there are registry setting for this licence agreement so that the user does not have to accept it manually? ...
I am using PowerPoint 2000 which does not have the distribute columns evenly function that 2003 and newer has. Does anyone know what VBA code would be used to distribute selected table columns evenly? (I know how to do it for the WHOLE table by finding the table width, dividing it by the number of columns, and adjusting each column's wi...
Goal: Step 1. Use a PowerPoint presentation during a seminar that allows the presenter to click on text fields and fill in information while still in "slideshow" view. Step 2. Copy (in any way) the entered information to a word document. Currently one the slide in question I have a table in powerpoint with msotextboxes overlayed over ...
I am looking for a way to add some meta-infromation to PowerPoint files. Specifically, I want to add annotation to bullets and slides. Are there any XML attributes which can be added to the elements (of the slideX.xml file) without invalidating it? In other words, where can I find the schema/DTD of the slideX.xml files? ...
I need to play PowerPoint slides but first I want to check whether PowerPoint or viewer is installed on the machine or not. How can I do that using .NET? ...
How hard is it to import a powerpoint presentation into flash. It would be perfect for me if the output would look like this: every powerpoint slide becomes a movieclip or a .swf file. I don't have any animations and sounds, its just text and images. I know i could save the slides to png but its very bad idea using bitmaps for text in fl...
Hi to everyone. I've got a tiny (I hope) problem again, and I don't know how to obtain access to some presentation properties provided by PowerPoint (however I don't even know how to google it or search it at the site :( ) from C#. Let me explain. We can access a TextRange property both in C# and VBA, via an interop assembly and ms-offi...
I was wondering if there is someway to embed a Flash Shockwave Object or .SWF file in PowerPoint (Presentation) 2007 and higher version, i.e. inside the ".pptx" format. By embed I mean when I save the presentation,close it . i wont be needing the the .swf file again. That way I can share the presentations with others. If I use this lin...
I've created a powerpoint COM add-in by using the VS2005 Shared Add-in template. I managed to deploy the add-in succesfully, but I noticed that once I install the add-in, even after I shut down powerpoint, POWERPNT.EXE proccess remains running (as I can check from the task manager processes panel). I did some testing and turns out the b...
Lately I have been creating PowerPoint presentations to companies. I have mostly been doing this in PowerPoint. Basically they are created by the same design, but just different numbers in set places, and different numbers used to generate the PowerPoint bar graph / pie graph stuff. (basically there are these pie graph objects when inser...
Hi all, do you have any idea how to export html/xml/json data into PowerPoint format in php? Tanks in advance ...
I need to copy text from one PowerPoint presentation to another. However, I have problems copying special symbols, such as smileys, which appear in the target presentation as empty boxes. Looking at the Open XML file in the original presentation, I can see that the Run containing the smiley has a "SymbolFont" attribute: < a:sym typeface...
I'm trying to create a toolbar with a button that will change the LanguageID for all shapes and text boxes in a PowerPoint document to EnglishUS. This is to fix a problem where if someone spell-checks a document using another language (in this instance, French), that language is embedded into the .ppt file itself. When another user tries...
I'm looking for some advice from anyone who has experience writing addons for PowerPoint on both Windows and Mac machines. We have a Windows Office 2007 addon (.NET) that we'd like to port to the Mac. Thus, in PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac, we require the following functionality: Ribbon/Fluent extensibility Custom Task Panes Re...
In PowerPoint 2007, PickUp/Apply does not capture some paragraph formatting, such as bullet formatting, when used programmatically (VBA). Adding the PickUp and Apply buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) and trying this manually confirms this. However, if you triple-click on a bulleted paragraph and select PickUp from the QAT, then...
In PowerPoint 2007 and using VBA, how can I get the placeholder shape on a Slide Master layout that is the "master" for a placeholder shape on the slide? I am currently using a loop to compare the position and size of the slide placeholder with the position and shape of each placeholder shape in the slide's layout, but this isn't fool-p...
I am developping a C# programm which creates a PowerPoint presentation. However, I am running into a problem with the following instruction: Presentation pres = pres_set.Open(path, Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoFalse, Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoTrue, Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTriState.msoTrue); This instruction w...
I am trying to generate a powerpoint presentation in C#. Everything works well on my machine but when I deploy it on Server I receive HRESULT exception on the creation of chart. Tables and other shapes work on both sides but I dont whats wrong with the chart when I generate it on Server. Can someone help here? ...
Hello, I want to realize a function in PowerPoint map animation. The animation can be realized by any technologies. But it must accept the data, either from excel or from other sources and the map changes when changing the data. Do you have any ideas? ...
Hey guys, I have an odd request. I have made an application that produces an html/printable invoice in a table format. What I am trying to do is figure out how to take such a table, which may have 3 or as many as 20 rows on it depending on who's using it, and paste it into power point. Any idea on where to start? I'll buy something if...