Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / November 2005

I found a previous thread "Hair-raising Powerpoint Crashes" about my
problem: Occasionally (about one time in ten saves) PPT 2004 SP 1 on OS X
10.3.8 crashes (vanishes) on save with no crash notification window. The
file being edited also vanishes. I could not find any help from the ...

On a MAC running 10.2.8 using PP from the Office for MAC X suite:
After building my PowerPoint presentation I go to the "print window"
where at the bottom I click on the "save as pdf" Button. When I do
this, it turns a 4MB file into a 6MB file..... What gives?

I'm using office 2004 (latest patch) and creating some handouts using
the "bold stripe" design.  In full color mode the text and images (and
stripes) on the 2 per page handout layout are slightly blurry.  The
outline around the slide is sharp on the left side but blurry on the

I've got a PPT file (PowerPoint v.X on Mac OS X Panther) which embeds a
quicktime movie. It works fine on Macs, but if I take it onto a PC, it won't
play the movie. Is there any way for me to embed the movie in the PPT file
itself so that I won't have to move more than one file to ...

I've got a PPT file (PowerPoint v.X on Mac OS X Panther) which embeds 3
QuickTime movie files. I want all three to start playing together when that
slide is reached during a presentation. That is, I want them to play
simultaneously, not one after the other. How can I set that up?

I'm experiencing problems in PowerPoint 2004 while opening files; it is
very very slow.
An example to explain it better:
a PowerPoint 2004 file of about 160MB takes about 10 minutes to open (

I have some ancient Powerpoint presentations that I made in 1993 on a long
lost Mac.  Neither Powerpoint 98 (Mac) nor Powerpoint 2000 (PC) can open
them.
Any suggestions on how I could open these files would be gratefully

Today, while I was giving a presentation using PowerPoint X, iCal
suddenly displayed an alert on the screen... Is there any way to
suppress this? The same problem occurs when using PowerPoint 2004.
I am using MacOS 10.4.3, latest update.

I have been sent a presentation by a client using Powerpoint 2000.  When I
open the file in 2003 one of the slides views as a blank template, and prints
blank.
The file was e-mailed, though when it was sent on disk the same happend.  

I'm running PowerPoint 2004 (11.2.1) on a Mac (Tiger 10.4.3).
If I have powerpoint open and I doubleclick a ppt or pps file,
the zoom window/application open woosh happens, but
nothing opens. If I try to open the same files from within Powerpoint

I'm using ppt 2004 v11.2 on a g5 with osx tiger. When I try to insert a
pdf file as an object, powerpoint tells me that the native application
can't be found. How can I get powerpoint to see Acrobat? Thanks for any
help.

I would like to be able to move a jpeg around a PowerPoint slide with
the mouse. I know it is possioble to do this because I have seen it
done, but cannot find out how to do it.
Thanks in advance for any tips.

I'm having trouble converting a power point presentation that my
teacher gave me into a word document.  I open the document in
powerpoint.  Select send to Word, word opens and the word document is
empty.  Am I missing a step?  Is there any other way?  Is it a bug in

Environment:
Office 2004, Service Pack2 (error also occurs with Office 2004 SP1)
Client: Mac OSX 10.4.2
Server: Mac OSX Server 10.4.2