Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2007

Hi - I'm working on a slide show 'gift' for the high school senior
class where i teach.  I have 37 slides and set them (trying to) to a
popular song.  Every time I play the show, the slides vary slightly in
the timing - sometimes too slow, sometimes too fast.  Even if I make
no changes at all, if I start it again it plays differently.  If I
delete a second to get a slide to run, it will then 'hang' on another
slide that is set for 1 second.  It's driving me mad - and I have to
have this ready in 4 days.

I even took my mac G4 laptop to a repair place - the guy ran disk
warrior on it but that did not improve performance.  I have unchecked
the auto recovery thing, stopped the spell check as I type, cleared
almost everything off my desktop.  I can't find my original office for
students & teachers disk or I would try reinstalling powerpoint.  I
have no other ideas to try.  A friend suggested downloading open
office.  If I do that, can I transfer my original ppt slides into it
without anything lost or changed?  I've spent hours searching the web
for an answer.   PLEASE HELP, YOU KNOWLEDGEABLE POWERPOINTERS!!  THANK
YOU!!!!!