Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2005

Recently I have started to have a problem where I am unable to save a file
in progress because PowerPoint has a problem accessing the Temp file.
I can do a "save as" and continue working but this gets old pretty quickly
and then I have multiple versions that I have to trash after ...

PowerPoint animations created in OSX work very poorly when viewed on PC.
No solution?

when I create a Hyperlink  from a PowerPoint 2004 OSX slide to Flash
.swf  file the Flash file opens but the PowerPoint slideshow closes
down completely.
When I do the same thing in PowerPoint on a PC the PowerPoint

I wanted to know if we can fix the following problem with Powerpoint
2004 for mac (which didn't happen in previous versions): when you move
a picture with your mouse on a slide, a shadow/transparent version of
the picture that you're moving appears, which is supposed to help you

Hello, I am hoping I can get some help. I just bought a new ibook G4
running OS panther 10.3. I am using Office mac 2004. When I try to
insert slides form files I get the following error...
Microsoft PowerPoint has encountered a problem and needs to close. We

Hello everyone, I'm just wondering if anyone might know how to switch
the left pane, on "normal view", to show SLIDES instead of OUTLINE. I'm
new to Mac but in the Windows version, the left panel on the Normal
View has 2 tabs (Outline and Slide); and you can choose which view you

When I try to use Presenter Tools in PPT 2004, I don't see the image of
the current slide in the main center window. Everythin else is fine.
This was working initially when I installed it. Any idea why it doesn't
work now?

I created a presentation on my apple ibook from a slide
that i "copied" and "pasted" from another powerpoint
presentation. When I tried to email the whole presentation
to my PC, it shows up with 12 empty slides.  I am running

Listen I just got Office for Mac, after about three years with my
iMac.I have a small optical store and I was thinking of creating a DVD
to play in the office waiting room that could explain the benefits of
our  was thinking that maybe I could create a presentation with this

I want to play a movie in the background, then on mouse clicks have
text appear over the top of the movie. So, for example, a movie showing
clouds in the sky and then words to songs would appear on top of them,
line by line.

in Powerpoint for Windows I can add guidelines by pressing CTRL and drag the
guide with the left mouse-button. Is there any way to add guidelines in
Powerpoint Mac?
A similar problem occurs with the indents in a listing or outline. I want

I wish to include the date in the footer of my PowerPoint slides, using
the ISO standard yyyy-mm-dd, which is the only unambiguous format (and
also the only format that conforms to the concept of most significant
digits on the left). Unfortunately, it would appear that MS has

I recently came across a very annoying bug of PowerPoint 2004: once I
open a file, I can no longer save my changes - regardless of where this
file is located.
The only way I can save my work, is if I rename the file, which after a

When I insert a movie from a folder into a slide, the presentation doesn't grow
in file size.  The movie is four times larger than the PPT presentation!
And it's still there even if I delete the movie from its original location.  
How can this be?

I'm using PowerPoint 2004 for MAC. When I try to open the DRAWING
TOOLBAR the PowerPoint program freezes and I have to force quit. I do
not consider the FORMATTING PALLETTE a substitute because it does not
have all of the features of the DRAWING TOOLBAR (like the ability to