Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / November 2006

I'm a person that just switched from a PC to a Mac. In Powerpoint for
PC, if you got to slideshow and go to pointer options and bring up the
pen function, you can annotate your slides, when you advance slides
your annotations are not deleted and when you quit the slide-show, it

I just wasted 6 hours with Microsoft and Adobe tech support.  it wa
Apple support that once again saved the day!  Adobe does not officiall
support Flash 8 Pro on the intel Macs (just FYI
Quicktime 1.7.3 blocks (or screws up) Flash publishing mov files an

Our company just bought a new high-resolution projector to use for new
business pitches and such. The PPT that we've used for years includes many
samples of work, all of which were recreated as 98ppi bitmaps for placement
into PPT. Now, with the higher resolution projector, our ...

Right now my macros are contained in a locked .ppt file that is
included as part of my standardized build to all Macs.  Users can open
this .ppt and create a new toolbar, then drag the macro commands to
that toolbar.  After this they can open existing .ppt files or create

Help. I went through this exact problem last time I used PowerPoint (in
August), and now it's happening again.
Upon launching the PowerPoint app, it crashes immediately after the
Project Gallery opens. All other Office X apps open fine-when trying

I seem to be having the same problem that someone else has.  I'm
working on a macbook with office X, and while excel and word work fine,
powerpoint crashes every time I open it.  Does anybody know how to fix
this? Is there a way to uninstall powerpoint and reinstall it?

My 6th grader prepares occasional Powerpoint presentations for school
projects using my PC and Office 2003.  The school has only Apples or Macs
based systems, so we (and others) can't put together presentations that can
actually be shown at school.  This subject has probably been ...

Please forgive me if this a FAQ with a well-known solution. I haven't
seen it mentioned here.
I use Office v.X under OSX 10.4.8. In PowerPoint's preferences I've
turned off saving 'autorecover' files, and I've disallowed 'fast saves'.

our organization needs to run our powerpoint presentations approx. 100'
away from the main computor,
We wanted to use a wireless mouse but none appear to be capable of this
range. This may sound dumb but what is available that you know of. We