Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2007

I have a number of large PP prresentations that include animation,
video and music. Does someone know the best way to convert them to a
DVD?

Just wondering if there is any way to make a single word or
selected group of words either blink or alternate from smaller to
larger back to smaller for the duration of a slide. I'm a teacher and
I think this would be useful when I'm teaching parts of speech. Thanks

I want to place a looping quicktime movie on a slide in a presentation
and have other text elements visible on top of the movie whilst it is
playing.
I can insert the movie and set it to loop and self start ok, but when

I have a presentation created on a Windows Vista machine with Office
2007. The file has a pptx extension. How can I open it with my Mac
PowerPoint v.X. Do I need to try PowerPoint 2004 on the mac?
I am sorry if this is answered somewhere else, but I can't seem to

Apologies if this topic has been done to death, but I have lost the
ability to insert Flash (.swf) files in my PowerPoint:Mac
presentations.
I used to be able too, but now I always get the error message "File

I have upgraded to Office X 2004 from Office X when I purchased my
MacBook Pro with the Intel chip. Some of my powerpoint presentations
are several years old and may have some compatibility issues. When I
try to start some of them, PowerPoint won't respond and they won't

Hi guys and gals,
Is there are any keyboard shortcuts to Powerpoint 2004 in Mac? It
would be great to have some key for the Trim tool or ordering layers
and not having to click in the icon all the time.

Does anybody experience the same slowness I'm facing? It's so hard to work
with a file while I edit. Even the CPU is been stressed as the fans keeps
turning on.
My friend whose using a powerbook claims he experience no such problem.

Does anyone know why I would have to double click to advance a slide during a
slide show? To my knowledge there is not a setting to be changed as I have
checked and it does not happen just on the 1st slide, it happens on all of
them. It also seems to happen with templates that I ...

I am doing a slide show and I entered 3 different audio clips. On my
final clip, the audio stops after 3 slides-i have it set to run until
999. It plays the full audio when I click the icon and it plays it in
my view show-it just won't play it until the end when i am doing the

Can someone please help an old man? I am using Powerpoint 2003 which I would
like to embed a shockwave flash object. I am trying to get animations to work
in the Articulare Powerpoint add on. I get the shockwave to draw a box on my
slide but when I try to run it a message comes ...

I am using Office 2004 for the Mac. I have tried using the online clip
art for my mac. After i download  the clip art does not import and
dragging the clip art is not allowable. Any ideas?  Thanks

Can any one tell me how to view a powerpoint slideshow (.pps) in a
window and not in full screen mode?
Thanks!

I receive PowerPoint files with music from PC friends, but I get no
sound when I play them on my Mac (with PowerPoint 2004). What's the
story? I noticed another posting here asking a similar question but
with virtually no answers. Is there simply no answer to the question,