Convert PowerPoint slides to Silverlight presentation in webpage:

http://pptx2silverlight.codeplex.com/

It's a separate app, not an add-in and shouldn't need PowerPoint installed since it simply consumes and exports files.

The app converts PowerPoint slides to a silverlight web page

Note, if you run this on 64-bit Windows there's a way to get it to work. By default it opens in 64-bit Internet Explorer and will ask you to install Silverlight even if you have it installed. You just need to open a new regular Internet Explorer window (not a Internet Explorer 64-bit) window. If you still see the Install Silverlight image in 32-bit IE then install or check the IE add-ons to make sure the Silverlight add-in is enabled.

As for inserting Silverlight content into PowerPoint we don't have native support. I've heard that the Silverlight ActiveX Control is the way to go but just tried it now in PowerPoint 2010 RTM and got a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications error: "System Error &H80004005 (-2147467259). Unspecified error".

The only conceivable workaround is to insert a Microsoft Web Browser control in PowerPoint and embed the whole web page that way. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291926 describes how to embed use the Web Control in PowerPoint.

Note: This won't work with PowerPoint 64-bit because it'll use the 64-bit IE and there's not a 64-bit Silverlight version available.

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The Office 2007 cumulative updates (CU) for April 2010 were released recently and contain the latest fix for the chart crashing. It's only targeted towards one issue but contains the previous hotfixes as well (hence the term cumulative updates).

This knowledge base article has the description of the hotfix

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981047

Download

There's two known tricks can try if you are still seeing the problem:

1. Try setting the processor affinity to use one CPU
Launch PowerPoint 2007. Open Task Manager, right click POWERPNT.EXE under Processes Tab, click Set Affinity and turn off all CPUs except CPU0 and then check the behavior.

OR

2. Insert the slide deck into a new file using Reuse Slides command
Close all PowerPoint files. Create a new file, delete the first slide so there are no slides, then go to Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide drop down, click Reuse Slides..., click Browse..., Browse File... select the file you were using when the problem occurred and Open. Right-click on one of the slides on the right and click Insert All Slides... (this inserts your file into a new file, this sometimes helps with file corruption or formatting issues)

If this doesn't fix the problem please post a comment with the PowerPoint version, build #, and most importantly the exact steps you take to get to the problem (PowerPoint Not Responding) (hang). Please attempt to recreate the problem on a new blank file without any template applied (or default template). If this issue is important, urgent, critical, etc... and you demand a fix please contact customer service to open a support incident at 800-MICROSOFT or online at http://support.microsoft.com/oas.

In a previous post an issue where PowerPoint hangs while working with charts was discussed.  A fix for this issue was originally planned for release as part of the August Cumulative Update.  There were problems with the first fix.

There's an updated hotfix, the KB article is:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975021

To get the hotfix click on  View and request hotfix downloads at top of that KB article, accept terms, fill out form and submit.

An issue has recently been discovered in PowerPoint 2007 where the application will hang while working with a 2007 chart object (not the legacy MS Graph chart). The PowerPoint product team is aware of this issue and a fix is planned for the August timeframe.  Please be advised this date can change based on a number of factors. 

The hang occurs as a result of the following behaviors after installing Service Pack 2:

1.       Clicking very fast multiple times in a chart object

2.       Using the arrow keys on the keyboard to quickly navigate through the object

3.       Quickly copying and pasting entire charts or chart elements

The error signature for this hang may include references to OfficeLifeBoatHang as the Event Type.

There's an updated hotfix, the KB article is:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975021

To get the hotfix click on  View and request hotfix downloads at top of that KB article, accept terms, fill out form and submit.

 This has a "Fix It" link that automates the manual registry editing part in the last post.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36bac9da-1ee4-40df-b06c-a327269f2b63&displaylang=en

There's also a knowledge base article for this issue http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969144 that contains a link to an automated fix. Click on the "Fix it" icon in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969144 for the automated fix.

There was a new update 'Office Live Add-in' that we started offering through Microsoft Update recently for Office 2007. We've discovered that if you're not the user on the machine that installed it (e.g. install add-in, another user logs on), have 'Do not show me this message again' checked, click close, then close the application, you still get the popup each time you start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint in Office 2007. No other applications use that add-in so you shouldn't see the problem in other add-ins. I've only confirmed this myself on Windows Vista but in theory this would affect any OS version that has Office 2007 installed with the Office Live Add-in. I have since reported this to the Office Live team.

The add-in can be installed either via Microsoft Update under the Optional Updates section (meaning you have to opt-in, not checked by default), or by downloading from the Microsoft Download Center in the Office Live Update 1.3 package.

Symptom:

You have Office 2007 installed and start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. You get the message below “Get Started With Office Live”, you have the checkbox “Do not show me this message again” checked and click the Close button. However, each time you start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint after checking that box the message still pops up.

Screenshot of popup

Keeps popping up every time you launch either Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (2007) even though you check ‘Do not show me this message again’

MESSAGE TEXT

[Title] Office Live Workspace

[Body]
Get Started With Office Live

Thanks for installing Office live add-in via Microsoft Update. You can now get started using Office Live Workspace.

This Office Live Workspace lets you:

-Access and view documents from almost any computer with a Web browser
-Open and save online documents directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

[checkbox] Do not show me this message again       [buttons] Continue | Close

Cause:

The add-in was installed under another user account and the OfficeLive registry subkey necessary for that checkbox entry to be logged in the registry is not created for other users. You need to manually create the OfficeLive subkey under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft for any user on that computer that wants to suppress that add-in by checking the box. After the OfficeLive subkey is created the appropriate registry entry FirstRunDontShow will be created once Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are started and if the checkbox is selected it will no longer show on subsequent launches of those applications.

The issue can be resolved by adding a base registry key named OfficeLive under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft subkey, once that key has been created the next time you start Word it should create two new DWORD entries (FirstRunCredsDeleted and FirstRunDontShow), both set to 1.

Solution:

Install Office Live Update 1.4

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36bac9da-1ee4-40df-b06c-a327269f2b63&displaylang=en

OR 

Registry FIX

Steps:

WARNING : If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

1. Logged in as the user that has the problem, click on Start, clcik Run, type regedit, click OK.

2. On the left pane expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER, expand Software, select Microsoft.

3. From the Edit menu point to New and select Key.

4. Type OfficeLive and press the Enter key.

5. Close Registry Editor.

6. Start Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you'll get the prompt, make sure 'Do not show me this message again' is checked, click Continue.

7. Close the application (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), the registry DWORD values should be created under OfficeLive for that user.

MORE INFO:

Microsoft Update - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100803331033.aspx

Office Live - http://www.officelive.com

Windows Registry for Advanced Users - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986

*In this case drive D is the CD-ROM drive and PowerPoint is the application you're starting. 

 See this knowledge base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961223

Application Log

Whenever an application crashes (faulting application) you should get the message <application name> stopped working. Once that occurs the crash details get logged in the Application Log as an Error event. If the report is sent to Microsoft the Application Log will also have an Information event that contains a Bucket ID.

On Windows Vista, you can open Event Viewer by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Event Viewer.? If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Expand Windows Logs and select Application to select the Application log:

Look on the right, a crash in an Office application should be an Error under the Level column, Application Error under the Source column, and 1000 under the Event ID column.

Crash

Example: crash from Outlook

Fault Bucket (bucket ID)

If the report was sent to us (Microsoft) there should be an Information event with Windows Error Reporting under the Source column and event ID 1001, with all the data gathered in the details.

On support calls, the piece of data that's most important to me is the Fault bucket that's reported. I'll usually refer to it as the bucket ID.

Problem Reports and Solutions (new in Vista)

A new feature in Windows Vista is Problem Reports and Solutions in the Control Panel under the System and Maintenance category (if you don't have Classic View turned on). This will contain all the crash and hang events that occurred on a computer along with settings to configure reporting to Microsoft.

To open Problem Reports and Solution in Windows Vista (not in previous versions of Windows:

1. Open Problem Reports and Solutions by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Problem Reports and Solutions.

2. In the left pane, click View problem history.

3. To view problems by product, date, problem type, or solution status, click the column name.

Bucket ID is the same as the Fault bucket in the application log event. I prefer using Problem Reports and Solutions versus Application Log to get crash details.

More info:

Where it's stored:

http://blogs.msdn.com/wer/pages/faq.aspx#weronpc

See problem reports for this computer

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/74274b33-52ea-40a4-bed5-9444c2a178a31033.mspx

Windows Error Reporting and the Problem Reports and Solutions Feature in Windows Vista

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709644.aspx

Choose the information to send when a problem occurs

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/15d43eb3-45fd-4248-8bd5-2ed92ee298961033.mspx

Open Event Viewer (Windows Vista)

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/a99f69c1-935f-4116-ba5f-33d8800ef9da1033.mspx

How to create a user-mode process dump file in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673

How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot "hangs" and "crashes"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350