Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2007

A pretty simple presentation (Powerpoint from Office 2004 for Mac)
that looks absolutely fine on my iMac looks horrible when run on a PC.
The letters in the words overlap each other in a most bizarre way.
Does anyone know what I can do to prevent this phenomenon please?

Problems with a PowerPoint presentation created on a PC, with a
corporate logo on every slide. On the PC the logo looks fine (an oval
with various graphic elements inside it). On Mac, the logo looks like
garbage. The oval has bumpy edges and the graphic elements inside are

I'm using Mac OS X, powerpint for mac 2004.
I'm trying to convert masses of ppt files to word.  Encountered a
problem with first file!
The file contains several slides each of which has a title and one

Have just bought a MacBook and transferred everything via the Migration
Assistant from my PPC PowerBook.
All programs work seamlessly including Office v.X, EXCEPT PowerPoint
(10.1.9)!

An end user is able to import import an SWF into PowerPoint X (10.1.5) and
on her G4 Quicksilver. On my quicksilver or MacBook Pro in either PowerPoint
10.1.6 or Office 2004 11.3.0 I can't import PowerPoint. I don't understand
why it only works in the 10.1.5 on her machine. The ...

I can't get the image compression feature in PPT for Mac 2004, v.
11.3.2, to work.
I am working with large, image-laden presentations for an art history
course -- up to 160 images per presentation. A Windows-using colleague

I need to record timestamps when slides change in a presentation.
These are manually changed slides - not timed changes.
On Windows this has been accomplished by a VBA event listener along the
lines of:

I have an application that generates PPT files on the fly.  On Windows
the PPT file -- either when automatically opened or opened after first
being saved -- contain all of the report data.  On my Mac, the PPT file
is empty.  At first I thought the issue was tied to the fact that ...

I have created several hyperlinks to custom shows in my presentation. I
have also defined an accent color for followed hyperlinks to keep track
of the followed links.
The problem is that after the links are followed, they stay as

Is there any way that graphics can added to Powerpoint so that they can be
manually be moved around during a presentation? I would like my students to
be able to sort objects by different attributes. Thanks

For some unknown reason, I am not able to change the font size in
powerpoint to anything other than the default sizes. Ex. 14, 16, 18 20.
I have always been able to override this, so if I wanted 15pt type I
just typed it in, now is just changes it to a default size. I am on a

I'm trying to help someone with the problem below. Any ideas?
Description of Problem:
Create a document in MS Word
Use Styles to define different heading levels

My formatting palette does not list all of the functions available, and
I am unable to rectify the problem using the "customize" function.
Although all of the functions are checked, only "add objects," "fonts,"
and "change slides" appear in the palette. When I attempt to uncheck

I could have sworn I've posted this question before, but can't find it
anywhere! Sorry... Some very helpful people posted helpful ideas about
where to get free PowerPoint templates for Mac. Can you help me out
again?

I am currently working on an accessibily program and would like
to know if it is possible to receive events from the toolbar and the
Palette's?
What I would like access to is the fact that the application user has