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http://kbAlertz.com (158284) - This article describes how to set object defaults in Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows. You can set the default for a picture, an AutoShape, or a Text object. To change the default settings for an AutoShape, follow these steps: Select an object.... PPT97: How to Set Object Defaults in PowerPoint 97 and 98 (176786) - During a slide show, if you run a macro that adds an object, such as a drawing object or shape, the screen flashes as the object appears. When you add an object during a slide show, PowerPoint redraws the new image on the slide. To redraw the... PPT97: Screen Flashes when Adding Object to Slide Show Via Macro (162182) - If you use one of the Presentation Design templates shipped with PowerPoint 97 that has custom animation applied to the master slide, and then save the presentation in PowerPoint 95 or 4.0 format, the custom animation is lost. The following... PPT97: Template Animation Lost When Saving from PowerPoint 97 (178168) - If you embed a CorelDRAW object into a Microsoft PowerPoint 97 slide, a frame for the embedded Corel object is visible. However, no image is visible. When you view the object from slides view, or slide show view, you see the frame for the embedded... PPT97: CorelDRAW Object Is Not Visible (189691) - PowerPoint has a hidden credit screen listing product developers and other people involved in the development of PowerPoint. To view the credit screen use the following method: Click About Microsoft PowerPoint on the Help menu. Click the... PPT97: How to Find Credits Screen in PowerPoint (189965) - The shortcut keys for formatting text as superscript or subscript in PowerPoint are: Subscript: CTRL+= Superscript: CTRL+SHIFT+= NOTE: These shortcut keys toggle the superscript and subscript formatting on and off. These shortcut keys are not... PPT97: Shortcut Keys for Superscript and Subscript Text (176678) - Playlist files are text files (with an .LST file name extension) that contain a list of PowerPoint presentations. These files allow the PowerPoint viewer to play multiple slide shows in order. This article describes the commmand-line switches that... Using command-line switches with playlist files (158490) - If you click Slides From Outline on the Insert menu in PowerPoint and then choose a Word 97 document, you may receive an error similar to the following: PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by PPT97: Error Opening Word 97 Outline (237197) - When you apply Preset Animations to Outline text in PowerPoint, the animation always applies to the text in the Body placeholder, even if the text in the Title placeholder is highlighted. If you want to apply a Preset Animation to a Title text... PPT97: Outline View Preset Animations Apply Only to Body Text (190405) - When trying to use a playlist (.lst) file in Microsoft PowerPoint you may receive the following error message: PowerPoint can't read PPT97: Cannot Use Playlist File in PowerPoint 97