Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / July 2005

Hi guys, I was directed over here from the windows powerpoint newsgroup...
I am trying to create an autorunning CD which will work on both PC and MAC.
I'm using powerpoint primarily because I know it and its free. It may well be
that what I am trying to do is nigh on impossible.

I have a ppt file, in which I've put some linked graphics. Some of
these have lost their path when I copied the folder everything was in.
All the images are still in the file, but now I can't see them. Is it
possible to find the path (I assume it was absolute) and either change

Hi Friends:  I'm using Powerpoint 04 and I've inserted a movie that I
put on a hidden slide.  (The idea is that it is optional for the
presenter to decide if they want to use the action button to advance to
the movie or not).  After the movie plays I would love it to advance to

I know i can use the keys to move through a PPT in "Slide Show" mode ..
but I can I be in "Slide View" mode and use the keys to move through
the PPT presentation?  I can't find a way to do this.
Thanks,

Hi!  The first thing I do every time I create a new presentation is make the
outline and notes panes as small as possible.  Is there any way to get
Powerpoint to remember my prefered size of these panes permanently?
Thanks!

I created a PP on the MAC. I drug images from the web directly to the
presentation which worked fine. When I sent my PP to a PC, the images
would not load (could not read quicktime even though quicktime was
loaded). When I looked at the images, it said that it was a PICT. Is

Using Office2004 for Mac S.Edition: Have several presentations with
slides containing picture objects--they're of graph axis--that are
recolored white. Background is black.   Changes are saved and
everything works great..until that presentation is the second

I'm attempting to create a good cross-platform CD with a PPT and movie
clips. Familiar refrain, I know, but bear with me here.
Based on some of the information I've read online, I chose the Mpeg-1
format, made the movies in Cleaner 5, moved them into the same folder as

I'm a new to Macintosh, Entourage and PowerPoint.  (Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.1)
Recently I received several .pps mail attachments but cannot hear the
soundtrack.  Could anyone explain the procedure to solve this problem?
I also received the following information on one presentation which ...

I want to have a diagram on a slide with the labels around in - in the wrong
order. Students then click on a label and drag it to the correct place. In
any order. Is this possible?
BTW ... PPT2004, but will be running it either under PPT2000 or the windows

Using PowerPoint 2004 for the first time, after much frustration and
head-scratching I learn with dismay that the language of the
AutoCorrect function is dependant on the language of the keyboard
layout being used. Strangely enough, the language used by the Spelling

I'm running PowerPoint version X and need to save a few PP
presentations to pdf. When I create the pdfs, the slides have a white
frame around them. The original slides in PP do not. How do I create a
pdf file with slides that are not "framed".

NOTE: This post was originally made to microsoft.public.powerpoint but
it was suggested I try here instead.
Using PPT 2004 on Mac, OSX... When a particular user types an "o"
followed by a "/", the two characters are replaced with a "Ø".

All the macros have been deleted from a PowerPoint document, but everytime
it is opened PowerPoint displays the ³Enable macros² dialog box.
What can I do to stop this message box appearing when there are no macros to
enable or disable?

Help!
We have been using PowerPoint for our church worship services. Because
the music minister sometimes changes the order of music, it is
imperative that we be able to see the thumbnail layout while the slide