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There's no native Silverlight support but we have this custom app on CodePlex: Convert PowerPoint slides to Silverlight presentation in webpage: http://pptx2silverlight.codeplex.com/ It's a separate app, not an add-in and shouldn't need...

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WE MOVED!!! See this post on our new blog for the latest on this issue. The Office 2007 cumulative updates (CU) for April 2010 were released recently and contain the latest fix for the chart crashing. It's only targeted towards one issue but contains...

WE MOVED!!! See this post on our new blog for the latest on this issue. In a previous post an issue where PowerPoint hangs while working with charts was discussed.  A fix for this issue was originally planned for release as part of the August Cumulative...

WE MOVED!!! See this post on our new blog for the latest on this issue. An issue has recently been discovered in PowerPoint 2007 where the application will hang while working with a 2007 chart object (not the legacy MS Graph chart). The PowerPoint product...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969144 This has a "Fix It" link that automates the manual registry editing part in the last post.

Before you read below, this is fixed in version 1.4 of the add-in: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36bac9da-1ee4-40df-b06c-a327269f2b63&displaylang=en There's also a knowledge base article for this issue http://support...

If you're getting this error: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:." *In this case drive D is the CD-ROM drive and PowerPoint is the application you're starting. See this knowledge base article http://support.microsoft...

Also check out http://blogs.msdn.com/wer/pages/faq.aspx#weronpc Application Log Whenever an application crashes (faulting application) you should get the message <application name> stopped working. Once that occurs the crash details get logged...

Here's how to get a list of all the shared Office features that Visio 2007 uses, and be able to enable or disable the feature. 1. Open Programs and Features from the Control Panel. Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features 2. Select Microsoft Office...

Many people may not realize that since Visio version 2002 the activation (and setup) is the same as any other Office suite or standalone application. In support we hear a lot of activation and licensing questions on Visio, and some don't realize that...

UPDATE - we've got a knowledge base article with more information on this issue, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961223 Symptom Start PowerPoint 2007 and get error message: --------------------------------------- POWERPNT.EXE - No Disk...

I'm a support engineer for Microsoft in the Office realm supporting PowerPoint, Publisher, and Visio. In the coming months I will be posting content on this site but in the interim it will be kind or bare. Goals of this blog: Common/Known issues Tips...