Trying to add a pdf file to powerpoint.  I have inserted a pdf file as an object into a powerpoint presentation.  Then I read instructions on how to make it active within the presentation by adding an action to it.  The action I have chose is :  mouse click - open .  When I do this all it does it shrink the pdf file.  It shows it normally (the first page of the pdf file) and then when I click on the pdf it just shows up like it is a thumbnail.  

All I really want to do is click to the slide of the pdf file, click it, and it brings up adobe reader to view the pdf

Is there a way to stop PowerPoint from automatically inserting pictures/icons into an empty picture placeholder on a slide when using the Insert / Pictures and/or Insert / Icons functionality?

For example, if I have a slide that has a picture placeholder occupying 50% of the width of the slide and I want to insert an SVG icon next to it, before adding the picture, the SVG icon is automatically inserted into the empty picture placeholder, even if it's not selected. This is a simple example with a simple workaround, insert the picture first but in some cases, a layout may have numerous picture/object placeholders so this problem becomes more of an issue. It's also a problem when automating PowerPoint with VBA.

Is there a keyboard modifier to prevent this behavior or a setting in options?

Hello experts,

I was wondering how to restrict specific AutoHotkey for application and turn off them for other applications.
Example:
I would like to use the following AutoHotkey exclusively when I used Excel:

;====================================
;Excel paste special
;====================================
;$if the send contains same letters of hotstring
$^#v::
If (WinActive("ahk_exe excel.exe")) 
{
  Send, !esvt
  Sleep, 100
  Send, {Enter}
  Return
}
Else
{
  MsgBox,4144,Error,Active windows is not an excel windows
  Return
}

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The benefit of If approach condition is that I restrict the AutoHotkey for Excel however the drawback is that I cannot turn off for other applications.
Let's suppose that I change the AutoHotkey for:

;====================================
;Excel paste special
;====================================
;$if the send contains same letters of hotstring
#d::
If (WinActive("ahk_exe excel.exe")) 
{
  Send, !esvt
  Sleep, 100
  Send, {Enter}
  Return
}
Else
{
  MsgBox,4144,Error,Active windows is not an excel windows
  Return
}

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When Notepad ++ process is running.
I would have error message instead of having the default windows action related to #d which is open desktop.
This question is crucial for my daily actions as I want to avoid clash between other default windows shortcuts.
Thank you for your help.

Hi,

I am trying to create an EXE of powerpoint so I can give io to my group for our meetings but get an error:


My steps are:
- create my ppt (I have v2010)
- run iexpress wizard to creat my EXE

This always worked but in this computer for some reason no.

This comouter is Windows 7 pro with Ms2010.

I need to create EXE of thie powerpoint, help please.

Office applications have numerous Task Panes. I need to determine which are open/visible. Some are activated via ribbon toggle buttons and/or dialog box launchers while others are activated with buttons.

I can detect those activated with toggle buttons as in this example:

bSelectionPaneOpen = CommandBars.GetPressedMso("SelectionPane")

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This doesn;t actually get the state of the task pane but the toggle button associated with it.

Conversely, I cannot do the same for those activated with a button. This example fails because the button isn't a toggle:

bFormatPaneOpen = CommandBars.GetPressedMso("ObjectFormatDialog")

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Is there a way to return the visible state of task panes that are activated via buttons?

Word has a TaskPane object but Excel and PowerPoint don't :-(

lTaskPanes = Application.TaskPanes.Count

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Using VBA, I am trying to check to make sure every shape in a presentation is filled with a color in the presentation's color theme.   Because this tool could be used in any template, my challenge is how do I use VBA to extract the numerical codes for the current presentation's color palette, including not only the 10 theme colors, but also the additional 50 light and dark variations that PowerPoint automatically presents as part of it's color palette.  See image below.

I know that these color variations are a combination of an ObjectThemeColor (1 through 10) and a Brightness setting (-1 to +1).   But I can't figure out the algorithm or method Office uses to create the variations.  For a light theme color like the light blue, the variations from top to bottom are Brightness -.1, -.25, -.5, -.75, and -.9.  But for a color like the dark purple they are from top to bottom Brightness .8, .6, .4, -.25, -.5.   So it's not always the same.  

 
Bottom line I need my code to create an array consisting of all color values that I can then check against.  How can I do this?

Thanks!

Team,

i would like to know, i need to present a PPT to a client , where when i go to next slide , it should take me to a webpage directly without me clicking it directly. If possible , could you please tell me how can i do it
After the web page access ,  i need to go to next slide to resume my ppt .

Regards,
Sid

I have created a read-only PowerPoint 2013 file with 5 Flash slides. They can be played in 2013 (32) but not in 2019 (32) on the same device (Win 10 Pro 64 laptop). As I need to distribute the file following presentations, how can I cure that, please?

If a chart was created with ThinkCell and another chart created using the built in chart feature of PowerPoint, would the PowerPoint chart properties be transferred to the  ThinkCell chart?
If a chart created in PowerPoint 365  using the native Microsoft PowerPoint chart feature, next another chart is created in PowerPoint using ThinkCell (https://www.think-cell.com/en/), would that chart properties match?
Does Microsoft PowerPoint charts and ThinkCell charts have the same properties?

If I changed a PowerPoint extension to ".zip," then open the zip file, and make one the files inside of it ready only, next I rename the zip file back to a .PPTX, would that prevent me from saving changes to the PowerPoint file afterwards?
Lets  us say a zip file contains PowerPoint data, or the file's extension was changed from ".pptx" to "zip," then I modify one of the files inside the zipped file, using Windows Zip, what impact would that be, if I changed the zip file back to the PowerPoint file? Would the PowerPoint file be corrupted?
Can you change the a zipped file properties such a read only, if the zipped file was once a PowerPoint file?

OS: Windows 10
Office 365

If you inserted a file with an .exe extension into a PowerPoint file, would that prevent the file from being saved?
What file types are restricted from being inserted into PowerPoint 365?
Can you attached a file into a PowerPoint file such as an executable?

OS: WIndows 10 version 1809

What are some reason why a PowerPoint file would not save to the cloud?
What can prevent a PowerPoint file from being saved
What software can prevent a PowerPoint file from being saved? Would Malware prevent a PowerPoint file from being saved?
I was thinking that Data Loss Prevention would cause the problem.
Any ideas?