Della:

I was not at WhilFest, but the other night, we had a little chat here in the UT with comments from attendees.

On passing, someone (Rick Borup, I think), commented that you showed a neat trick, with a basically empty PPT at the beginning and then run a prg to create the slides.

Between my knowledge of Word, Outlook and Excel automation, plus your book, I should have no trouble creating something similar with PPT for an upcoming presentation I have. Would you care to explain a little more what you did so I can visualize the steps a little better? (I'm guessing you grabbed an open instance of PPT where you had the one slide saying "will be ready in a moment" - or whatever).