Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / April 2007

I have embedded a flash animation within my powerpoint presentation.
All works fine the first time I view it. but when i quit out of
powerpoint and then return to it, instead of it starting from the
beggining again it just sits at the end of the movie.

Does anyone know if it's possible to create PowerPoint presentations that
will no longer run after a set expiry date or after a set number of uses?
This would be useful if one were to want to sell content on a (annual)
license basis rather than by customers making a one off payment.

Basically, I need to teach myself Powerpoint 2004 on the Mac, but I
can only find resource books for Powerpoint 2003 in the PC.
Would it be safe to assume, that since Powerpoint 2003 is the latest
version before the Mac version, that if I bought a resource book on

I have recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro 2.66Ghz.  I have many large
presentations with many movies in them, mostly quicktime MP4.  They all use
to open fine in PowerPoint X.  Now, they take 10 times as long to open, and
when they are played, they pause between slides, and the ...

Is it at all possible to convert a PowertPoint Presentation that has been
automated to a DVD that can be played by a DVD player with a television? I
have used PowerPoint 2003.

I'm hoping someone can help.
I have a ibook G4 and do presentations regularly.
Each time I try to use presenter tools, the audience view and my view
(ie. presenter tools view) are identical...so it's pretty much

we make at the moment a new powerpoint draft and a wish from colleague would
be to protect the position of the headline text-field and of the normal
text-field, because other colleagues sometimes accidentally move the
textfields.

Help!  I've been spoiled by the detailed Find and Replace dialog box in MS
Word.  Now I'm working in PowerPoint XP, and I need to change two spaces and
an open paren to an enter character.  Since a handy list of non-printing
characters is not provided in PPXP, I've tried ...

Help!
I have been creating sales presentations on my new MacBook Pro, using
PowerPoint 2004. In the creation of the slides, I often use photo's,
most often in jpeg format, occassionally in png format. Of late, when

I have a project that I did a few years ago (about 10) that I have
updated over the years. Now, I want to add a second project using the
slide design from the old one for continuity purposes. Is there an easy
way to move the slide from the old one to the new one? (Old one being ...

My father bought a MacBook Pro recently and switched from Powerpoint on  
Windows to Powerpoint 2004 on MacOS X (version 10.4.9). Now he complains  
about that when he adds a textbox and starts to type something the border  
of the textbox is not painted correctly. It's a bit ...