Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / September 2004

I have not used Powerpoint before and am thinking about
purchasing it.
Can anyone tell me if Powerpoint files can be saved as
Quicktime movies. I'd like to be able to put my

Images that I put into powerpoint on the mac do not show up when I move it
onto a PC. I have saved the ppt as packages and a few other formats. I just
get the error that's something like Missing the quicktime component. Unable
to read tiff uncompressed. The PC has the newest version ...

My version of Powerpoint (Office 2003) has the
measurements all set up in the metric system. How can I
change that? I'd like to work using the Imperial
system.   I've looked all over the software for

So, I created a whole bunch of PNGs with shadows and transparencies on
a Mac (Photoshop) and imported them from a PC into a (PC) PowerPoint
file. Everything looked fine on a number of desktop PC machines. Then
we send the file off to someone else and all the PNGs show up with

I've made an original template and put it in the template folder. For some
reason, only the first page of my PowerPoint presentation shows this
template. How can I get ALL the pages to use it? I have checked the
appropriate box that reads something like "all slides" but that ...

I have a powerpoint presentation that has several hyperlinks on the first
slide. each hyperlink goes to another slide within the show. the idea is that
once you see that slide you go back to Slide 1 and click another hyperlink.
Anyone know how I can have the links that have ...

I have a client who would like to make changes (calculations) to a
spreadsheet within Power Point without leaving the Power Point show
and entering Excel. I've been to the help desk and have found no way
to do this. Just wondering if anyone has any ideas. I want to make

I need to be able to manipulate batches of PPT files (using PowerPoint 2002)
so that the opening view
on all files is the same.  I have written some VBA code that does everything,
except for one thing (and I'm beginning to think that this is impossible).  

i need to make a one time "presentation"..
want to use powerpoint...
have iBook...  OS9.2..
have office from orig purchase... do not see power point

I have a very specific problem and wonder if anyone has any suggestions. I
am printing Powerpoint posters that are usually 44"x66". I had no problem
doing this in Classic mode or in OS 9 with Powerpoint 2001, but have not
had any luck in OS X. I am using a Epson 9600 and Epson ...

PP 2004 has nice features but also lots of problems (both Mac OS 10.3.4/5).
Here some of them, which are sometimes annoying:
- Text objects:
Fragments of the border of selected text objects are still visible after

I've posted this before but never received a useful reply.
I've noticed that PowerPoint 2004 is extremely slow whenever opening
or
saving anything located on a network/remote volume. I have obvserved

It's easy enough to get a listing of specific file types in a given folder in
VBA using something like this (sFolder and sFileType assumed to be string
variables set to the name of the folder and file Type you're after):
sFileName = Dir$(sFolder, MacID(sFileType))

Opening a presentation on XP (Office XP) that was created using
Powerpoint 2004, each picture is blank apart from a message saying
that: I need Quicktime (which is installed) and a "TIFF (uncompressed)
decompressor".  The pictures were originally pasted into the

I just opened a ppt received from a colleague (Windows). That ppt has many
charts (one per slide) and during the opening process, there has been many
metafile conversions (all the charts I believe). Most (not all) charts are simple
Bar charts with moving average lines. The ...