Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / February 2007

I want to have text appear in front of a movie clip in Powepoint 2003 and/or
2007. Presently, when I select the text box and arrange it to the front, upon
playing the movie, it automatically sends the movie to the front.
Suggestions?

How do you start your slide show from a slide in the center of the
show versus the beginning. I am working on an issue on slide 24 that
occurs when I play the show. When I click slide show-it starts at the
beginning and I am wasting a lot of time trying to get to the end of

i am using powerpoint 2004 on a powerbook g4 and need to know how to
build a quick photoalbum with a caption as the file name of the
picture... is there a macro or applescript out there to assist me in
this>?

Hi, I love using PowerPoint to deliever rich lectures in class;
however, I'd like to be able to print a version of the presentation
that I call student guided notes.  This would include the presentation
slides with the ability to mark certain sections of text as "student

Okay, here's my scenario.
I have a powerpoint that I created last year for our school's 5th Grade
Recognition.  I spent a TON of time arranging the photos, adding color
frames, shadow effects, etc.  What I'd like to do is to go into the previous

Hope someone can help....
I'm using version X Office & 'trying' to use Excel.... The problem is
very recent. The formula toolbar has completely disappeared.... Its'
ticked in View but it doesn't appear alongside the other selected

Hi, I have a .pps file that when I attempt to open it with the Mac
PowerPoint, it just gives me an error saying, "This document might use
advanced encryption that is not supported for PP for Mac. If this
document was created with PP for Windows, ask the author to save it as

Anyone knows if MS PowerPoint hits a hard ceiling when dealing with
large files, files with lots of elements in them ? (crashes, corrupts
the file etc.)
Error is: "Powerpoint cannot open the document because part of the file

I have an Imac with Intel running OSX 10.4.8 and the latest update
from Microsoft.  When ever I recive an ppt file via e-mail, when I
click it, it launches Powerpoint and then the application freezes.
Any idea?

My wife, who teaches Art History, just switched from XP. She's got a C2D
Macbook with Office 2004, and is having difficulty copying images directly
from webpages into her PowerPoint presentations. In XP, she would
right-click the desired image on a web page, select "Copy", and ...

I'm attempting to record a narration to a powerpoint presentation and
then save it as a QuickTime movie.
The narration sounds great and the slides change when they are supposed
to, however the animations within each slide seem to run on their own.

Hello, is there any chance that the apple remote, that is included in
the new computers, will work with power point. It will really cool if
it was possible. Any thoughts will be appreciated!

I'm running Office 2004 on an iMac 24" Intel machine.  While working
on PowerPoint, the program just disappears from my desktop.  There is
no crash message, no nothing.  There is a recovery file written to my
hard drive and I can recover most of the work I had done, but then, a

I used to be able to see the designs of the slide templates in
PowerPoint 2004 so I could choose one. I can't anymore. All I can see
is the list of designs, not what they look like. In the Help file the
following information appears:

I used to be able to see the designs of the slide templates so I could
choose one. I can't anymore. All I can see is the list of designs, not
what they look like. In the Help file the following information
appears: