Hey Mac what's up? Well I've been reading help files and looking at Linda's tuts on PowerPoint, but I can't say I'm any better off than I was, but that's my bad not the instruction. First, I've got to get the concept of the visual and audio effect, and see ways in which PowerPoint is used. I am a really nonvisual person. I do a lot of things far different than most sighted and blind people, not because my way necessarily works better, but just because I've always been the odd man out. Kind of like it that way to. I was reading on Linda's site that Vic takes presentations and turns them into executible files. I was thinking about doing something similar to that, but in a different way and using a different program. I would like to try and make a legal presentation that would walk someone through different categories of legal research. I want to put it on a CD and have it kind of run like "flash' I guess. I guess I could try to learn flash, but I'm wondering if c++ could just as easily do the job. I kind of like that type of programming language. I played around with C and .exe files as well as jcl files a long long time ago, and I've forgotten all that I learned, but the logic is still there, I think. I'd like to get back to some of this stuff that I used to be familiar with. also it seems that c++ books are free for the taking, is it still used by programmers today, or is it a rarity when one uses it. I realize underlying components of course still use the concepts. Well, I didn't mean to get astray here and I was going to just ask Vic if he did that stuff in C++. sorry, I won't do this again, but since I typed this, I might as well send it. Rex ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************