Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / October 2008

Same thing in Word & PowerPoint. Seems to be Office-wide.

Hi,

Anyone who is experiencing this problem should use Help > Send Feedback.
Be sure to include system information (OS version, basic hardware and RAM).

Something like this is sure to get a quick fix if enough people report
it right away.

-Jim

I have confirmed this & found it to be the case with *all* Office apps as a
result of the 12.1.2 update. I've filed a bug with MacBU, but as Jim
suggested each user should: (1) Be sure to use the Send Report option when
the crash occurs & (2) Directly use Help> Send Feedback to hammer the issue
home. I certainly can't say for sure but I would expect something of this
nature to be addressed rather quickly.

Thanks for the heads-up :-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 8/14/08 5:18 AM, in article 59b56df5.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

Me too. the only work around I've found is to save the pdf as a JPEG and then insert that as a picture file. I've already sent feedback too.
Marty

quick fix? it's been 2 weeks and no response from msft... anyone has any news as to when a fix is likely? this is a big issue. can't believe they don't incorporate something like that in their testing and QA procedures, if they have any!

Same problem here, reproducible every time. Didn't they tout PDF insertion when they rolled out Office 2008?

Does it now work since updating to 12.1.3? i have updated but still can't paste. it's even more broken now since it's not even possible to paste as picture. When i copy in excel and paste special as either picture or pdf all i get is a blue set of handles on the ppt slide.

have however found a very unsatisfactory work around which i wanted to share. it's a small free application called skitch (www.skitch.com) which allows you to take a picture of a part of your screen, like an excel graph and paste it as pdf into other application. how a small startup can fix something that msft can't baffles me, or maybe not....

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