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

You should contact Bill at Mr Excel!

It does say Requires PowerPoint 2007 though.

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...

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...

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:...

If you have a version before 2010 then ONLY wav files can be embedded. There's no way to embedd wma or midi files.

It is possible with a little trickery to convert to mp3 and then add a wav...

There's no way to do this the default size is hard coded. It would be possible to code a "resize me" button on the ribbon to make it a one click fix.

If PowerPoint is in the x86 folder it means that IT is 32 bit but Windows is 64 bit. Maybe you need 64 bit Quicktime if Windows is 64 bit?

"great job you folks are doing staging the London games!"

Wait till we pass the US in the medal table!

We are heading for AZ in October (Scottsdale) for the Presentation Summit BTW

Amazingly Microsoft designed it that way. Their (flawed IMO) rational was that if you went back to a slide you wouldn't want the animation (audio is an animation) again.

To get around it place a...

I would save as a .thmx file and put it in
C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office\Document Themes 12\

Do you know how to use vba code?

In your Excel file press ALT f11
In the code window that opens INSERT > Module
Copy and paste in the code below and hit f5.

Note the code is for charts as...

Saving as a pps will not give any security at all! You can just rename it to .ppt OR right click >> New OR just use File > Open to edit the file.

Adding a modify password will give some security...

WORK ON A COPY!
I would first goto View slide master

Make the Title Only Layout (about 6 down) look like the slide ie Make the Title placeholder narrower and fill it with blue + set the text...

This is new behaviour in versions 2007 and 2010. Not a good idea IMHO but that's how it works.

Just an aside:
I wonder when you said set the placholders to white you really meant "No Fill"?

if so make this change

If oshp.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
oshp.Fill.Visible=msoFalse ' change...

You'll need to explain a little more

Do you mean all placeholders to have a white background? Or maybe Placeholders and textboxes.
Theme Color = Black - what does that mean?? (or rather what do...

You can do this with code:

Sub fixme()
Dim osld As Slide
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
On Error Resume Next
If osld.Shapes.HasTitle Then _
osld.Shapes.Title.Fill.ForeColor.RGB =...

The "Microsoft" method does definitely work so there's something strange going on. I can't imagine any way it would open a slide show using this procedure.

You do have the full version of 2010 not...

Interesting you blame Microsoft for what is basically a badly designed template. it also sounds like your "Textboxes" are actually shapes because textboxes act slightly differently.

Anyway that's...

Just note though that adding to the master template doesn't actually work (Why Microsoft?). It has to be an AddIn to work reliably and then you need to know how to write the XML to add a ribbon...

The macro in PPt would be:

ActiveWindow.View.PasteSpecial DataType:=ppPasteText

Thats not the problem. In PowerPoint, unlike Excel you cannot attach macros to the QAT (or anywhere else) and...