Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / June 2004

BUG
Using the Guides to snap on screen objects in-line works great in PwrPnt X.
However, there are some issues in PwrPnt 2004.
1. Sometimes two guides appear for each axes, but only 1 set is actually

Is it possible at all?  Not just games, sure some olde DX 7 or 8 games
come to mind, but i mean for all DX apps.  If this is possible, I find
my PC running Linux with Windows a thing of the past....
P.S. Anything to get away from Microsoft yet still allow me to enjoy

In mac when I insert a pict file there is no problem viewing the
presentation, but when I try to view on a PC the pict. does not show.  Can
anyone help.
Thanks

I am having trouble with running Quick Time Movies in the Slide Show
mode with 2004.  The movies are not running smoothly...very haltingly.
In the normal view it runs fine.  Ironically, I reopened Powerpoint
OS X and it runs perfectly.

I have Office v X for mac and until now I´ll never have
problems with the compatibility between powerpoint files,
however last week a friend give me a powerpoint
presentation file stored with powerpoint 2003 for windows,

I know that when using PowerPoint v.X on the Mac with dual monitors, a
click on the main monitor (where the slides are all showing) will
prevent any further action on the display slide on the secondary
monitor without clicking on that screen.

I'm desperate to change to the new Mac and the new Office.  i'm
somewhat of a power user of PowerPoint on the PC and i make very heavy
use of the MOTION PATHS way of moving info on a slide. I had a quick
look at the new Office in France yesterday and could find nothing

I'm on a design team that exchanges powerpoint slides
across windows/mac platforms.  We sometimes get blank
boxes when a mac tries to view a windows presentation. It
seems to occur especially with cad drawings. Is there a

PowerPoint 2001 does not give you the option to click relative hyperlink.
Neither does it let you change the file name.  Is there an update for Office
2001 for Mac that fixes this problem. If so, can you tell me were to get it.
Microsoft   Or is there another way to do relative ...

is there a way to add keyboard shortcuts to specific submenu items eg i
access the custom animation submenu often and would like to do it withthe
keyboard instead of using the mouse.
If not, is there a way to keep the custom animation dialog box on the screen

I have a powerpoint presentation that has embedded movies
(quicktime).  I would like to overlay these movies with text and
keep the text visable while the movie plays.  However,
when the movie plays it covers the text.  Is there anyway

OK, just upgraded to Office'04. I'm going to post any bug I find in any app
on this list because I don't think there's a list for Office over at the
Apple's discussion site (which is great, BTW).
Bug.

I have run the updates for Office X and still the dates in
my excel tables change to future dates when I past them
into PowerPoint,  How come?

open no problem on other versions
anyone else run into this problem?

I've heard that the with the new verision of Power Point for Mac OSX
(released last week in Office 2004) that you cannot take PP files
cross platform. Can anyone verify this?