Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / April 2006

Hi, I wonder if you can help me with a few questions about Powerpoint
on a Mac. I'm new to Macs and Powerpoint, so sorry if they seem a
little simple!
1. From doing a search here earlier I am under the impression that you

I am having a persistent but variable sound problem using PowerPoint.
During record narration I find the sound recording on most slides gets
truncated. The recorded time cut off varies from a few seconds to 40+
seconds. When you go to the next slide it appears to be behaving

This is my first experience with Powerpoint for mac. For some reason,
at the end of some of the slide transitions, there is an extra delay
time with ghosting (re-appearing from the slide I am exiting) has
suddenly developed. I can't seem to get rid of it. The other issue is

Hi, I have just got my first apple (macbook pro) and also got office
2004 student edition. When I use powerpoint, I can not for the life of
me get the text to shrink in order to stay in the text box (which it
has done for every other edition of powerpoint I have ever used). When

I am a recent convert back to Mac after a 7 year hiatus.  I am a heavy
PowerPoint user and have both the Intel-based iMac and MacBook Pro.  I
understand Office for Mac is not a Universal app and may not be for
some time.  I have found Word and Excel to work fine despite requiring

I am trying to create a presentation with audio that I can share across
platforms.  I have created the audio separately in Garage Band,
converted it to wav format in iTunes and insterted it into my slides.
One audio clip per slide.  My slideshow looks great on my computer, but

When starting up PP Version 10.1.4 , it starts as usual and builds up
the menubar and suddenly it crashes with the message, that it had been
unexpectly crashed.
following already tried.

Hi everybody... yesterday i had a terrible problem using PowerPoint for
mac 11.0. I was working in a 60 slides presentation (not very heavy),
and suddently, when i changed the window to check me mail, PowerPoint
was shuted down, and my working file was lost!!  I was working in that

Am seeing a recurrent problem where I cannot drag and drop either individual
bullet entries - or complete slides  - after the first 15-20 slides. I can
do it in the first 15-20 slides however. This occurs across ALL PPT files,
not any particualr one.

I'm running PowerPoint 2004 on 10.3.9 and every time I try to insert a
sound file, the gallery crashes.  I don't have this problem with
PowerPoint v.X.  Could I have corrupt file somewhere that is causing
the crash?  Any suggestions?

I know that this may be a printer issue, but I wanted to start here in
case anyone has any advice for me or has ever seen anything like this
before, so here goes:
I have a pretty hefty PPT file that prints without issue from PPT

Whenever I try to save my PowerPoint file as a movie, the PPT application
crashes. EVERY TIME! It's a large presentation with a lot of animation and a
sound track, but that shouldn't be the sole cause of not being to save it as
mov, should it? I'm on a G4 with OS10.39 and the ...

I have a PPS file that was downloaded from the internet to a PC
computer complete with slides and sound that plays perfectly on the PC
but when I transfer it to the Mac the sound will not play.
I have checked it in the PC and the sound is a wav file that I think

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the colour of the shadow
that can be applied to fonts through the: format/font toolbar?
Thanks
Jill

I am hoping to customize a ppt handout master, as the default options aren't
working for me.  
My goal is to re-create the 3 slides per page default format, but with only
2 slides per page, and in a landscape page orientation.  I'd like to keep