Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2005

I just recently installed Office 2004.  I did not delete Office v.X,
since the documentation indicated it was not necessary to do so.  I am
finding that embedded Quicktime movies that played fine in Powerpoint
X (30 fps) play unacceptably slowly in Powerpoint 2004 (very low frame

Help!!! I cannot open my PC PPT files (2003) on my Mac (2004). I can,
however, open my Mac PPT files on my PC. Any ideas??

I am trying to save a pp from Mac OSX so that we can distrubute the
presentation for other users to show a different computer and vresions
of powerpoint. The other users will add their own pictures in the show.
How do I save the presentation so the my transitions and times remain

I frequetly use powerPoint to present my lectures and often have
formulas that I have typed into the Equation Editor in PowerPoint.  If
I print a slide everthing works well.  However, if I try to print out
any of the views (slide view, notes view, handouts view...) using

I've been trying to copy/paste text from an .rtf file into a pre-formatted
Powerpoint presentation but, for the life of me, I can't get that text to
adopt the text formatting of the Powerpoint template. Using "Paste>Special"
hasn't helped at all.

We have a client requesting that when opening their PowerPoint
presentations they appear in Normal View with the entire outline text
collapsed. However, opening the file after collapsing all and saving
reverts back to the previous view before the save. How the current view

Okay,
So I've written this wonderful set of VBA code in PowerPoint that
does exactly what I need it to do. It runs a toolbar that I added and I
use a supplemental Cocoa application to call functions within the

A PP presentation I give every few months has started to act very
sluggish.  It has many slides, some with 3 or 4 large pictures on them.
I was running the presentation on an older Mac G4 PowerBook running OS
10.2.3 and it seemed to run just fine.  (I can't recall the processor

I am having difficulty opening any PowerPoint presentation that was
created on a PC.  I receive the following error message:  PowerPoint
cannot open the file....The file may be corrupt, in use, or of a type
not recognized by PowerPoint.  The file can be opened and perform fine

Am copying graphics drawn using PowerPoint 2004 and then do a "Paste
Special" as "Picture" into Word X, 2003 (PC), or 98. However, graphics
drawn with free-form line drawing or round cornered rectangles do not
copy well. The lines appear far thicker in Word X or Word 2003 (PC)

We are having big problems with QuickTime in PowerPoint.
The main problem is that it seems that in some settings, QuickTime
movies are adressed with full/absolute path in the .ppt files. This has
a few consequenses - the main one is that you _cannot_ move a

Recently, I have a problem with importing graphics (saved as jpeg
files) generated from Canon's Photostitch.
These JPEG Image graphics were created 6 months ago.  Now, oddly, some
images can be imported, while others just turns up as a totally black

Hi--
I'm at my wits end.  I recently switched from WindowsXP to a Mac.  I am
thrilled with the Mac, and have no complaints, EXCEPT....in trying to
use Powerpoint 2004 for Mac, I can't seem to find anywhere where I can

I have set a new default graph for a template, but all it does is set it to
a column graph with the colours pre-set in Preferences and in the slide
background colours in PowerPoint itself.
Is it possible to set the grid colours and weight and also the font size? I

In powerpoint 2004 for MAC OS X, in the left pane in normal view it
displays the fonts I am using instead of something nice and simple,
like it did in MAC Office X. I can't read the wording because I am
using some fonts that just get all crowded together. Is there a way to