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Clairelish 7/12/2004 6:00 AM PST
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  Hi there

Apologies if this has already come up before...

My company had a bullet point designed for our presentations, and all users of PowerPoint could use that bullet as it was in the Picture Bullet menu. However, most of our PCs were rebuilt and so the bullet has been lost (the original can't be found either). One of my colleagues still has the bullet on her Picture Bullet menu... but I can't work out where the image is stored on her system (she's using Ppt XP/WinXP.. the rest of us are now on Ppt2003).

Do you have any ideas on how I can locate this bullet so it can be used by others?

Thanks ever so much for any help you can provide,
Claire
 
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Geetesh Bajaj 7/12/2004 6:50 AM PST
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  Try saving that presentation to HTML and see if your original picture is
saved within the same folder as the HTML presentation. Just a thought.

Also, maybe it is possible to programmatically retrieve the bullet?


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"Clairelish" <Clairelish@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6279596B-9443-41FD-A33D-9E9C9C931837@microsoft.com...
> Hi there
>
> Apologies if this has already come up before...
>
> My company had a bullet point designed for our presentations, and all
users of PowerPoint could use that bullet as it was in the Picture Bullet
menu. However, most of our PCs were rebuilt and so the bullet has been lost
(the original can't be found either). One of my colleagues still has the
bullet on her Picture Bullet menu... but I can't work out where the image is
stored on her system (she's using Ppt XP/WinXP.. the rest of us are now on
Ppt2003).
>
> Do you have any ideas on how I can locate this bullet so it can be used by
others?
>
> Thanks ever so much for any help you can provide,
> Claire


 
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Steve Rindsberg 7/12/2004 7:21 AM PST
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  In article <6279596B-9443-41FD-A33D-9E9C9C931837@microsoft.com>, Clairelish wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Apologies if this has already come up before...
>
> My company had a bullet point designed for our presentations, and all users of
PowerPoint could use that bullet as it was in the Picture Bullet menu. However, most
of our PCs were rebuilt and so the bullet has been lost (the original can't be found
either). One of my colleagues still has the bullet on her Picture Bullet menu... but
I can't work out where the image is stored on her system (she's using Ppt XP/WinXP..
the rest of us are now on Ppt2003).
>
> Do you have any ideas on how I can locate this bullet so it can be used by others?

Have her create a very simple presentation that uses the picture bullet (and little
else) then save the presentation as a web page. That will create one main html file
plus a whole folder full of assorted support files. Among the support files, I'm
pretty sure you'll find one image that's ... voila ... the bullet picture.

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Clairelish 7/12/2004 7:29 AM PST
   
  Many thanks to you both. That has indeed solved the problem. I've spent ages trying to sort it out so am well chuffed! My company create educational resources which embed swfs in PowerPoint so you can expect more posts from me in future...

Cheers
Claire

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

> In article <6279596B-9443-41FD-A33D-9E9C9C931837@microsoft.com>, Clairelish wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > Apologies if this has already come up before...
> >
> > My company had a bullet point designed for our presentations, and all users of
> PowerPoint could use that bullet as it was in the Picture Bullet menu. However, most
> of our PCs were rebuilt and so the bullet has been lost (the original can't be found
> either). One of my colleagues still has the bullet on her Picture Bullet menu... but
> I can't work out where the image is stored on her system (she's using Ppt XP/WinXP..
> the rest of us are now on Ppt2003).
> >
> > Do you have any ideas on how I can locate this bullet so it can be used by others?
>
> Have her create a very simple presentation that uses the picture bullet (and little
> else) then save the presentation as a web page. That will create one main html file
> plus a whole folder full of assorted support files. Among the support files, I'm
> pretty sure you'll find one image that's ... voila ... the bullet picture.
>
> --
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
> ================================================
> Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
> October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
> ================================================
>
>
 
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"John Langhans [MSFT]" 7/12/2004 1:28 PM PST
   
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[TOP ISSUE - Are you having difficulty opening presentations in PowerPoint
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Hello,

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how to
make this (extract picture bullet files or other types of inserted content)
easier to do in PowerPoint, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN
WORDS, please) to Microsoft by either:

A) If you are using Microsoft's web-based, online newsreader for Office
communities (http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx),
click on the "New" drop-down menu and choose "Suggestion for Microsoft"
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OR,

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IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
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