Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2005

Since we upgraded to MAC Office 2004, printing presentations takes ages. The
setup is:
X 10.2.8
Office 2004

I received a PPT presentations which was created on a Windows XP machine
(using Office XP), and PPT Mac v.X opens it fine, but the automatic
advancement of slides doesn't work. The options all look right, and the
timings are present. Not sure what to try.

I created a couple self runining PowerPoint slide shows. and Uploaded to
a website. Do I need the Jpg image files the PPS or PPT file was created
from to be on the website as well.
I need to reduce the number of files I have on a website because of

When saving a PPT to Mov (in Office X) the slides won't advance until
the music clip has finished playing. If I save to Mov without music in
my slide show the slides advance normally. Am I missing something or is
this just a problem with Quick Time?

Are there any books for Power Point 2004 for Mac?

Does anyone know?  I had this working but can't find my sample.
I imagine it would go something like this, but the following doesn't work:
Set oPicture = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange
With oPicture

I HAVE TO WRITE DOWN MY ANGER. AFTER 6 HOURS MAKING A PRESENTATION IN
POWERPOINT, SUDDENLY (NOT ANY KEY WAS PRESSED) IT DISSAPEARED FROM MY MAC.
NOT ANY SIGN OF IT.
USING FINDER SEARCH,THERE IS NO FILE, HAS NOT BEEN IN MY MACHINE EVER. I ASK

I created a ppt file in Windows and then revised/edited it on my Mac.
Now when I try and open it on my Windows machine, it gives me an error:
" Powerpoint can't read E:\filename"  wher filename is the path to the
file I want to edit.

When I compress my 2004 powerpoint presentation for a handout to PDF it
grows in size by 4X. How can I make this file size manageable to send
on the interrnet?

I just installed Office last update (11.1.1).
I was editing a table in an existing Powerpoint presentation and
suddenly all colors disappeared! On all Slides. I had to close the file
(and loose all recent modif) and open a previous version.

When I send copies of my PowerPoint Mac presentations to colleagues with
PC's, they get error messages viewing the graphics, saying "Needs QuickTime
to view graphic."  What's up with that?  Is there a way for PowerPoint2004
to save graphics as meta files, which are crystal clear and ...

Using PowerPoint 2004 I set up a PowerPoint Show page for school kids with
Hyperlinks to a number of web sites. When I exit the website the show itself
has closed. This isn't very elegant, nor helpful for the kids. Is there any
way to avoid this, so that when they have finished ...

Ever since installing Office X, I’ve experienced screen redraw
problems while editing slides. Moving a text block causes "ghost"
images of the text block handles/outlines to remain behind. Worse,
attempting to set tab styles in text blocks by clicking on the tab

I am sorry if this is a deadbeat subject, but I have just switched to
Macintosh with the hope of improving my life... and just run into a
wall.
One of the amazing thing MS did in PPT 2003 (and later XP) was to

Anyone else experiencing that ?
"w" looks like "w ", "v" looks like "v " (with an extra space)
It looks pretty normal at sizes 10 or 12, or bigger.
This seems to be the cause for format differences between PPT 2004 Mac