Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / December 2006

what would be the best solution to export a powerpoint-presentation into a
pdf?
a tried several settings (paper-settings "presentation"), but every pdf has
a white border!

Howdy, I just performed an autoupdate last week of Office 2004, and now
my Powerpoint is gone. No files, no app, nothing. Anyone else have this
problem?

Does anyone know if Powerpoint 2004 for Mac has the capability to open
files that were created in Powerpoint 2003 for Windows?  We currently
use an Imac for our presentations, but all of our presentations will be
created on Windows XP machines using Powerpoint 2003.  I'm trying to

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a pps with sound that
automatically launches when you insrt the cd into a computer? i have
the pps with sound, but no automatic launch . . .

We have used Jeopardy Powerpoint slide shows where the main slide
hyperlinks to multiple slides within the same slideshow.  Last year
this worked fine.  This year we have made two changes:  we are now on
Mac OS 10.4.7 (last year it was 10.3.9) and we have upgraded our MS

I've had this problem with a few presentations that I've received.  They
work fine on my Windows XP system, but not on my iMac Intel Core Duo.  The
slide show opens and video is fine, I just don't hear any sound.  Is this a
known issue and what can be done to remedy it?  It doesn't ...

W.H. Williams reported a similar problem to this back on May 22nd.
See his note below this note.
I have suddenly developed a problem with my HP psc 2510
photosmart printer.   I set up some presets in PowerPoint 2004 for Mac

I am making a powerpoint book that a student with a physical disability
will use with an alternate keyboard. To read the text they need to
click on the words an a action plays the text with background sounds. I
need to assign a keyboard shortcut to that action so when they press

I'm finding it impossible to head a column with the date '01/02' as it
is automatically changed to a date in a different format ('99/00' and
00/01', however are fine).
I have tried using a customised number with the format 'yy/yy', which

I use Powerpoint a lot on my Powerbook, for prasentations. I use the
option for dual monitoring. Here´s the problem.
When switching in prasentation-modus, to , for example Quicktime
Player, or DVD-Player, My mac switchrs from dual monitoring to 1

A person here where I work use Office 2004 for Mac to creat a PPT
presentation. Some of the slides consist of an Excel sheet that she then
increased in size by dragging in one corner in PowerPoint. It looks just
fine in PPT for the Mac, but when opening in in PPT for Windows all ...

Are there any free templates for Mac PowerPoint?? it shocks me that
there are so many nice ones posted regularly for Windows only.
Christine.

I am using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac and I have a title with
superscripted text that I would like to underline.  When underlining
the text the underline is also superscripted rather than being aligned
with the rest of the regular text.  This looks terrible.  I have

Is there an easy way to make a set of columns  all equal in width (or
rows equal in height, for that matter)?  I know in PowerPoint 2003
there is a table-tool that enables this and you can add a button to the
tool bar.

Yesterday I finished up a powerpoint presentation for school. I saved
it and closed the program. Later, when I came back to burn it to a CD,
i went to open the file and got the message: Powerpoint cannot open
Macintosh HD:Users:quinnpeck:Documents:Flamenco.ppt because part of the