Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2004

I have created a powerpoint presentation (40 slides) with large TIFF graphics
on many of the slides (approxiamately 6.5"x7") and I would like to create
handouts.  Trying to print these files causes the program to freeze and
nothing productive occurs.  Importing the graphics to ...

I have Office 2001 & I'm running OS 9.1.
I created a 24 slide powerpoint file -- graphics, text, charts, tables, ...
the works. Looks great.
Since I'm a recent victim of losing data from a crash, I probably saved that

My wife had to sell her Mac beacuse in Office v.X, she could not use
"xml" in PPT, but she could on a PC running Office.  Has this been
corrected in 2004?

I'm putting together a PPT presentation with several large quicktime
movies (the largest is 1.25 gig). I had hoped to play it on my 600 mhz
ibook with 256 RAM, and it almost works. There's just a little
mis-synching at the beginning of some of the movies, and occasionally

I've encountered a vexing bug in PowerPoint 2004 and can't find a solution.
When I drag an object (text box, shape or image) it drops 4 PowerPoint grid
points down after I release my mouse button. This happens whether I have
snap to grid on or not (I do not have snap to objects ...

I'm still struggling with the problem of adding jpgs or tifs to my PPX
presentations.  I did as previously suggested (repaired disk
permissions), which did nothing.  Some jpgs and some tifs will consent
to be inserted, but there doesn't seem to be any pattern to that. I

I am going to put some PowerPoint presentations on CD and distribute them. I
use a PC, and I am using PowerPoint 2003 to create the presentations.  I
need the CD to be compatible with both Mac and PC.  What can I do so that
Mac users can view my presentations?  I know that one ...

This is a continuation of a complaint I made a while ago, which can be
found here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=9e2b1fcd.0309180813.3
867b066%40posting.google.com&rnum=7&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Drender%2Bgroup:microsoft.
public.mac.office ...

I have encountered almost unbearable slowness with Powerpoint 2004
while working on my lighting design portfolio (which is the only
project I have on Powerpoint).  It contains roughly 35 image slides,
which are approximately 2MB .jpgs, and 12 or so text slides.  In

My server crashed and 1/2 of my class had PowerPoint (2001
for Mac)open at the time. Now when they try to open their
file, it gives a "file in use or corrupt" message and
won't open the file. Is there a way to convince the files

I'm working on a Mac g4 powerbook with the latest powerpoint installed.  I
have about 350 picture presentation.  When I save the presentation it comes
to about 26 or so MB.  I then burned it onto a disc and tried to open it in
windows 2000 (the projector doesn't hook up to the ...

I have been using PP for years, and have never encountered this
problem.  Suddenly, PP won't accept many of the .jpgs and .tifs that
I've been using.  They have no preview, and they either get a message
saying that the file format is unrecognized and I should try to open

I don't know if this is just specific to me or not, but after I installed
Office 2004, Entourage changed the default email account I use for sending
messages to these news groups. It started using my default account. I had
another one set up in Entourage X that mangled my "from" ...

Is there any way to embed linked images in the presentation other than
removing the linked images and then selecting, adding, embedding, and
resizing all new images?

I am trying to create a PowerPoint presentation of 134 slides at 5 seconds
each.    Supposedly that should take 11 minutes and 10 seconds.   Instead,
it takes between 15 minutes and 15 minutes 30 seconds.   It seems part of
the delay is caused by the computer delaying to open the ...