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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Customize Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations?

(image)  (image)  Hey, Scripting Guy! I am a sales person, and therefore not a professional IT person. I live and die on my ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint. I therefore stumbled across your Web site while searching for solutions to a problem I have. Let me briefly explain the situation. I learned a long time ago that customers ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Add a New Slide to an Existing Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation?

(image)  (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been enjoying reading your Microsoft PowerPoint articles this week. I am curious however; can you use Windows PowerShell to add a slide to an existing presentation? I have searched on the Internet and can’t find an example of doing that. Is it not possible, or just too tough?-- YF (...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change the Theme of a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation?

(image)  (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have received our summer student interns, and I asked them to create some Microsoft PowerPoint presentations for me. Unfortunately, the theme they used was not something I can use in the business world. I hate to have the students go back through all of the presentations they created and apply a new...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Print All Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations in a Single Folder?

(image)  (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have been a longtime reader of your Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog, but this is the first time I have ever written to you. I am wondering why there are not more articles about scripting Microsoft PowerPoint. I need to be able to print handouts from all of the Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that are in ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Remove the Speaker Notes From a PowerPoint Presentation?

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a whole bunch of PowerPoint presentations that we would like to share with other people. However, before we make these presentations available we’d like to remove all the speaker notes from each one. Is there a way we can use a script to remove the speaker notes from a PowerPoint presentation?-- TW (...