Questions tagged [microsoft-powerpoint]
Commercial software presentation program included in all editions of the Microsoft Office suite.
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PowerPoint Tables - Master Table to maintain formatting?
I have a PowerPoint project with lots of data I'm pulling from Excel, so there are say 50 slides with the same layout and tables.
The issue is, if I want to re-format my table, I have to repeat on ...
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PowerPoint VBA not giving correct value for shape.AnimationSettings.PlaySettings.StopAfterSlide
I insert audio files on some of my slides. Each clip is intended to play over a number of slides. I have 2 VBA macros that check a presentation for overlapping or underlapping audio by looking at ...
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PowerPoint Presenter View Next slide vs Next animation
Is it possible to configure PowerPoint's presenter view to show the Next Slide rather than the Next Animation in the top-right area? If the "Next animation" IS the next slide then it still ...
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Collaborate on Keynote file with external people on Teams/Sharepoint or OneDrive clouds
I have a headache inducing situation.
The administration at my institution shares everything on Teams or OneDrive. Ideally, we should store everything there.
But my working group work exclusively on ...
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How to apply a saved template to a different Mac PowerPoint file in macOS Sonoma?
Existing answers do not work on 365 for macOS Sonoma. Whether the template is .potx or .pptx makes no difference. Selecting it under design tab has no effect on the old slides. Does it matter that the ...
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In PowerPoint, how do you make animations work independently and not in the order they are in in the animation panel?
I have each animation set to 'On Click' however they still follow the pattern they are in on the animation panel. I need each animation to work independently. i.e., I have 12 blocks each set to ...
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Round corners only at the bottom
We have lot of text boxes and/or images embedded in a text box.
How to round in PP only the corners at the bottom? There is a text box on the top with white background and a text box below with the ...
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How can I quickly convert a large PDF file with many pages into a PowerPoint (PPT) file? [closed]
I have approximately 10,000 PDF files that I’ve merged into files containing 500 pages each (20 files of 500 pages). Now, I want to convert each merged PDF file into a PowerPoint (PPT) file as quickly ...
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Microsoft office modify or duplicate default ribbons [closed]
In office, it is not possible to edit an existing/default group in the ribbon. E.g. If I try to customize the ribbon in Excel by go to the "Home" tab and "Font" group, I can not ...
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Can you delete saved YouTube history in PowerPoint?
If I go to add a YouTube video to PowerPoint and start typing a link, a box with all of the videos I have ever put into PowerPoint appears beneath it with the heading "saved info".
If I ...
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independent data sheets for every power point presentation
My wording might not be appropriate (I'm not an expert on Excel, OLE, VB-stuff), but please bear with me for a couple of seconds.
We have to deliver end-of-sprint statistics in a PowerPoint ...
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MS Powerpoint, how to have slides display as continuous pages when editing
For editing a Powerpoint file in Microsoft Office 365, is there a way to have pages scroll continuously?
i.e., if I scroll the mouse wheel, I'd like it to show part of the next page, rather than jump ...
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Changing the navigating (tabbing) order of objects in PowerPoint
I think that the order that I can move from one object to the next using my Tab key is determined by the order in which the objects were placed on the (Master) slide.
However, what I'd like to do is ...
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Can I disable animations in the Explorer Preview of Powerpoint files?
I like that Windows Explorer can quickly preview the contents of Office files in the Preview pane (View ➡️ Preview pane). However, some Powerpoint presentations have animations on every slide change, ...
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External Monitors only work in PowerPoint slide show mode
I have a HP laptop (Windows 11) with two external monitors connected via DELL 6000 dock. Both monitors were working fine in extend mode. This morning, both stopped working. However when I opened a ...