PowerPoint 2003 Solution Center | How-to articles - PowerPoint 2003- Technical resources for Office Products
This article describes technical resources available on the various Microsoft web sites that you can use to assist you in the deployment and use of Microsoft Office applications. - List of some programming resources for Visual Basic programming in Office 2003
Provides a list of resources that are available to help you learn VB programming in Office 2003. It includes online help, object browser, MS Press books, KB articles, newsgroups, and other Web resources.
- How documents are opened from a Web site in Office 2003
Describes how Microsoft Office 2003 opens documents from a Web site by using a hyperlink or by using a Web folder view in Internet Explorer. This article also describes the behaviors that you may encounter because of the design. - 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. - INFO: Troubleshooting Error 429 When Automating Office Applications
When you use the New operator or CreateObject function in Microsoft Visual Basic to create an instance of a Microsoft Office application, you may get the following error message: This error occurs when the requested Automation object could not be... - How to Determine the Path for an Office Application
This article includes sample code that illustrates how you can programmatically determine the installation path for a Microsoft Office application given the ProgID for that application. - How To embed and automate Office documents with Visual Basic
Demonstrates how to dynamically create and Automate an Office document using the OLE Container Control. - How to find the installation path of an Office application
This article demonstrates how to use the Windows Installer to find the installation path of Microsoft Office applications. - How to use the WebBrowser control to open an Office document
Demonstrates how to navigate to an existing Office document and display it inside Visual Basic using the WebBrowser control. - How to obtain built-in constant values for an Office application
Describes how you can programmatically retrieve a list of built-in constants and the equivalent values at run time for Office applications. - How to pass a COleDispatchDriver as an argument for a method expecting a VARIANT
Some methods require that you pass a VARIANT that represents an Automation object. With MFC, these objects are typically handled by COleDispatchDriver -derived classes. To pass one of these to a method expecting a VARIANT , you can create a new VARIANT... - Sample code to change the Language ID of a text box in PowerPoint
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro ( Sub procedure) that searches a presentation for text boxes and changes the LanguageID property of the text box to US English. You can easily modify the code to change the... - Using Visual C++ to automate Office
Provides the basic information you need to automate Office, as well as pointers to resources and sample code. - INFO: Translating Large Office Automation Error Values
While automating an Office application, you might receive a large error value such as -2147221494. Troubleshooting the error is greatly facilitated by determining the exact description of the error. This article discusses several methods of obtaining... - How To Use Visual C++ to Access DocumentProperties with Automation
This article illustrates how to automate Microsoft Word with Microsoft Visual C++ to retrieve and to manipulate document properties. Although the sample in this article is specifically written to automate Word, the same concepts can be applied to... - How to reset the default toolbars and menu commands in PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint stores all the changes that you make to its menus and toolbars in a .pcb file. The file name is determined by the version of PowerPoint that you are running. For Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, the file name is the PPT.pcb file.... - The Dsofile.dll files lets you edit Office document properties when you do not have Office installed
Explains that Dsofile.dll is a sample COM component written in Visual C++ that lets developers working in Visual Basic or other languages read and edit OLE document properties for Microsoft Office documents without Office installed. - How to create mirrored text in PowerPoint, in Word, and in Excel
You cannot create mirrored text directly in Microsoft PowerPoint, in Microsoft Word, and in Microsoft Excel. However, you can use Microsoft WordArt to create a graphic image of text that you can mirror by using the Rotate Or Flip command. To... - How to Change the ToolTip for a Custom Toolbar Control
Microsoft Office programs do not allow you to change the ToolTip for a custom toolbar control by using the Customize command (on the Tools menu). To change the ToolTip, you must use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro. This article contains... - Colors on screen and color printout may not match
When you print a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on a color printer, the colors on the screen may not exactly match the colors on the printout. This is also true for other programs that produce color output. - How to automate PowerPoint by using Visual C++ 5.0 or Visual C++ 6.0 with The Microsoft Foundation Classes
This article describes how to automate Microsoft PowerPoint by using Visual C++ 5.0 or Visual C++ 6.0 with The Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). - How to automate PowerPoint by using Microsoft Foundation Classes in Visual C++ 5.0 and in Visual C++ 6.0
Describes how to automate Microsoft PowerPoint by using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) in Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and in Visual C++ 6.0. - How to automate PowerPoint by using Visual Basic in Office 2003, in Office XP Developer, and in Office 2000 Developer
This article describes how to automate Microsoft PowerPoint by using Microsoft Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2003, in Microsoft Office XP Developer, and in Microsoft Office 2000 Developer. - CreateObject does not create new PowerPoint session
When you use the CreateObject function, which is used to control the Microsoft PowerPoint object model from Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code, you may notice the following behavior: If PowerPoint is running, a new instance of PowerPoint... - Sample code to add the path and file name to each slide
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that adds the path and file name to the footer of each slide in a presentation. If you change the name or location of the presentation, you can run the macro...
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