Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I have been having this problem on both my computers (iBook G4 and iMac G5) since upgrading to Office 2008. When I create PowerPoint presentations using images on my local hard drive, I *always* click the checkboxes next to "Link to file" and "Save with document" but when I transfer the presentation from my computer(s) to our office PC which runs Office 2002 the image files are missing. Instead we have the text linking to the image file on my hard drive and it shows as a broken image link, even though I have ostensibly saved it with the document.

This happens sometimes but not always, which is very confusing when I am following the exact same practice for inserting image files! In order to be compatible with our PC, I always save the Mac-created presentation as a *.ppt file as we cannot open a *.pptx file on the PC.

I have tried saving as a PowerPoint package as well but this results in a *.pptx file AND the images I have linked do not appear in the package folder for some reason! We use many image files every week in our presentations and this is getting very frustrating. What are my options? Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?