Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2006

Hi.  My powerpoint presentation is not recognizing action buttons
properly.  When I run the slideshow, clicking anywhere on the screen
results in advancing to the next slide.  I would like for the action
button to be the only place on the screen that will advance when

I couldn't find a way to add to the previous post, but the display
issue (slides cut in half, and displayed bottom part  at the top of the
display, and vice versa) on the 30" Cinema Display only manifests
itself at its normal resolution of 2560*1600.  If I reduce the

i have the Problem that customers will sent me ppt-files
from Window-PCs. When i try to open them - i get the
following dialog...
Serverapplication, file or element is missing. Check the

Is there any way to print a PowerPoint presentation without the
assigned color background? A client wants to reduce the ink usage when
printing their PowerPoint presentation without having to go to a black
and white output.

I have just discovered a GIGANTIC bug in PowerPoint 2004 that was
DEFINITELY not there in the previous PowerPoint version.  Does anybody
know of a workaround for this, or else I am going to be forced to
delete all of my slides and start all over again.

I'm trying to import some clipart that I've downloaded from the Microsoft
clipart website.  I cannot import the resulting file into my clip gallery
(I'm receiving a corrupt file error).  I'm running PowerPoint 2004 on a Mac
PowerBook running OS X 10.4.5.  All of the latest Office ...

I have two randoms bugs with Mac Powerpoint 2004 on OS X 10.4.
The first is that sometime, PP don't want to save the the file when I ask to
save.  It says : "There was an error accessing [file's path]".  If I ask
again to save, it asks me to save on another name because the file is ...

When I open a .pps file I get this error message...
-2147483640 Method 'Visible' of object 'CommanderBar' failed
When I click on the button the message goes away and the slide show
seems to work fine. However, how do I get rid of the message at the

we experience the same problem as described in thread
  ab3867d8c6edb7d9/20045b53497e7a9d
from November, December last year.
It is a G5 with 512MB RAM running under OS 10.3.9 with Office 2004. The problem

Is there any way to prevent PowerPoint from showing the menu that
appears in the lower left of the presentation mode?  I'm interested in
being able to not have that display either in PPT for Mac or Windows.
If it must display, is there a way to prevent it from showing the

Is there an easy way to compress all the images in a presentation?  In
Windows there is a little icon of a picture with arrows pointing in.  I
usually have alot of pictures and need to compress them.  I've tried
going to the screen that says compress to a certain dpi but with no

I have a power mac G4, on which OSX 10.4.5 was recently installed.
Since that update I don't get any applications listed in the copies and
pages menu when I go to print.  I discovered this problem when working
with powerpoint (2004 for Mac, version 11.2).  A search of the

I have been troubled by a behavior in the dock icons for Word, Excel,
and Powerpoint.  Whenever I print using cmd-P, or from the File menu,
or the toolbar icon (which I switched to the button that brings up the
dialog box every time), the dock icon for that application (happens in