Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / April 2005

Using Powerpoint 2004 on OS 10.3 and selecting the slide sorder view, some
slides redraw fine, while others appear blank.  The same thing happens for
any presentation. No other mode does this:
- Selecting a "blank" slide for close inspection brings the image back

Does anyone have any sample code they can send that would
show how to change source files for a powerpoint
presentation that has a PPT slide per Excel Worksheet.  
This is a multi page/worksheet presentation and users

How can I say to PowerPoint 2004 for Mac OS to go automatically to such
folder to take a picture and to insert it in the presentation and come back
to that folder and so onŠ

I have a lot of presentations that I put together 5-10 years ago using
various PC versions of PowerPoint.  I am now using Macs exclusively,
and have run into difficulty when I open these old presentations with
Mac PowerPoint 2004.  Specifically, all of the equations show as random

I'm running Office X under Mac OS 10.3.9 on a MDD DP G4.
I just installed the Office 10.1.6 Update.
When I attempt to open any PowerPoint presentation created with the
10.1.5 version, it refuses to open with the following error message:

Can 1 PP show display 2 time lines on 2 monitors?
I would like to make a PP show that would sync two time lines (one
presentation) to two different monitors. For example: if one monitor
could show bullet points and the other monitor could show the photos or

After suffering horribly with a presentation that refused to run any of the
video clips I had inserted, I contacted MS tech support. They were unable to
help me, but did tell me that ³it should work.²
No one could reproduce the problems, and none of the standard solution

I set up a custom show in my main presentation and when I run the slide
show I want to be able to exit out of the custom show portion at any
time without having to run the whole custom show. Is there a way to do
this? I have tried putting text hyperlinks on each of the pages in the

Has anyone else seen this problem with slide backgrounds?
We¹re running Powerpoint 2004 (ver 11.1.1) on a G4 iMac (OS X.3.8). In
previous versions of PPT, you¹ve been able to select ³Keep design when
copying slides between presentations,² and slides with a different

I often save a graphics file from Adobe Illustrator that has a transparent
background (not white) in PICT format and then import into PP. In PP X these
files are fine, but some of them in PP 2004 have strange black rectangles in
areas around vector objects that should be transparent ...

"Less than or equal to" and "greater than or equal to" symbols
typed in PPT X do not work when the file is opened on a PC (nor do
they work on this forum, apparently!). Same problems with symbols
(alphas, betas, etc) as well as some bullets.

I have copied a presentation from a PC to a Mac with a USB stick. I am
sure it has been copied correctly. After I have altered the
presentation (changed animations) the file disappears from my Mac. I
mean really disappear, not become invisible or anything. IT IS GONE.

When I open a PPT presentation created on a PC (running the XP Office
version) one graphic is blank on the page.  I happen to know it was
pasted from Visio using paste special - enhanced metafile.  The corner
markers are there for the image but nothing but empty space in the

I have charts within PP presentations that were created on a PC. When
the slides are printed in either greyscale or black and white from a
Mac running 2004 the chart axis text does not change to black on white
as the rest of the slide text does. I know this is easy to fix if we

Powerpoint files are often big and difficult to send as email attachment.
So I usually make a pdf out of them. The procedure is to invoke the
Print Handout 2 slides per page Output option Save as File Format PDF.
A recent case: PPT was 6 MB and pdf output 7MB on the Mac and 700 kb ...