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  • Add items to the 'New Presentation' task pane


  • Ascertain if a shape is animated


  • Assign interactive animation


  • Automate PowerPoint and insert an image on the slide


  • Break OLE links programmatically


  • Clear all the animations


  • Copy slides with source formatting


  • Create a presentation of slide images


  • Create an agenda slide with hyperlinks to the slides


  • Delete empty autoshapes/textboxes


  • Disable the "Update links" dialog box


  • Enumerate Hyperlinks in a presentation and associated objects


  • Export Slides within a Presentation as files


  • Exporting All Slide Titles To A Text File


  • Extract Slide selection as Presentation


  • Find and Recolor


  • Generic class wrapper which reads the UserInfo key in the registry


  • Generic function to obtain the current slide object in any view


  • Get a reference to the Title shape on a slide


  • Global Find And Replace routine in PowerPoint


  • How to activate a graph object in a separate window


  • How to activate the outline/thumbnails tab


  • How to apply designs to various slides (2002+)


  • How to clear the Clipboard in Office 2000


  • How to determine the current cursor position in Slide View


  • How to determine the which Command Bar button was clicked


  • How to determine which shape was clicked


  • How to display in-built 'Open/Save As' dialogs in PowerPoint 


  • How to extract images from a presentation


  • How to open a PowerPoint Show (*.pps) file programatically


  • How to programmatically pause a show.


  • How to set two toolbars on the same row


  • How to update information within unrelated excel objects inserted in slides of a presentation


  • Inter-presentation communication


  • Locate and highlight instances of a specific word


  • Locate specific text and format the shape containing it


  • Manipulating Tables in PowerPoint


  • Offset the data labels of a graph object on a slide


  • Paste Excel chart as pictures in PowerPoint (Paste Special)


  • Power Point VBA Equivalent of Application.ScreenUpdating method


  • Print the current slide in a show


  • Programmatically restore an image to it's original state


  • Quiz in PowerPoint using VBA


  • Reference an ActiveX control on a slide in VBA


  • Restore the Insert Word Table button on the Standard toolbar (PPT 2000)


  • Roll Over Demonstration


  • Set table border colour


  • Simulate a countdown timer using Sleep API


  • Timeline ? The animation engine in PowerPoint 2002/2003 - Part I


  • Toggle images on every click on the shape


  • Two methods to play sound files (*.WAV) files synchronously/asynchronously


  • Use CreateObject to Print Slides From A Presentation


  • Using SetTimer-KillTimer API in PowerPoint 2000


  • What is a Bounding Box in a shape's text range?


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