PowerPoint 2003 Solution Center

Format

How to create or format a default presentation in PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003
Explains how to create a new design template and use it as a set of default formats for new presentations. This article contains the steps to create a new design template.
Description of the guidelines for selecting the appropriate picture format in an Office program
Lists different picture file formats, including advantages and disadvantages, that you can insert into Office programs. Explains how to select the appropriate format, resolution, and color depth for your pictures.
Frames are always shown in Web presentations in PowerPoint 2003
Explains that Web presentations always have frames. The issue occurs because PowerPoint 2003 uses a frame layout. You can disable slide navigation controls and the outline frame to work around this issue.

Issues that are fixed in the update to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats
Describes several issues that are resolved after you install the updated Office Compatibility Pack. Describes how to obtain and install the update for the Compatibility Pack.
In PowerPoint 2003, when you try to open a presentation file was created in an earlier version of PowerPoint, the presentation file does not open, or the presentation file opens slower than you expect
Describes a problem that is caused by large .wmf files in a presentation file that was created in an earlier version of PowerPoint. Provides information about a hotfix that resolves the problem.
Description of the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: April 13, 2005
Describes the issue that is fixed by the PowerPoint 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that was released on April 13, 2005.

Text formatting is lost when you save, close, and then reopen your presentation in PowerPoint 2002 or PowerPoint 2003
Explains that the text formatting may be lost when you reopen a saved presentation. Requires that you create a new master instead of using the old one or that you not use multiple slide masters.
All the slides in a PowerPoint presentation are formatted with the slide design of the design template that you selected
Explains that the format is applied to all slides when you click a design template in the Slide Design task pane. Provides the steps that you can use to apply the format to the current slide in your presentation of PowerPoint 2003.
Special text formatting is lost when a Word document is pasted in PowerPoint2002 or in PowerPoint 2003
Explains that the special font formatting of Word documents may not be retained when you copy text from Word and paste it into PowerPoint. This problem may occur if PowerPoint does not support font formatting that is supported in Word.