Hello, I am using office 2003. I need to be able to paste captured pictures easily (e.g., with a simple key combination) into an open powerpoint presentation. Each picture is typically a screen capture (say, in windows clipboard via Alt+print screen). The idea is to avoid creating a temporary file to hold the screen shot, and then to insert that file manually into powerpoint. This is probably a job for a PPT VBA macro that creates a new slide and inserts from clipboard. 1. Does anybody know how to write such a macro? 2. Can I execute a macro in powerpoint without making the windows focus go to powerpoint (i.e., powerpoint is minimzied and I am in the program that I captured the image from)? Say via a windows key combination? Thanks in advance. --Ashraf

You don't want to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V? Because the clipboard IS a temporary file. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.