Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2007

I am a research scientist in the area of molecular endocrinology at the
National Institutes of Health.  I have been composing slides on
Powerpoint that contain graphs, text, and graphics, all on a background
that is constant for all slides and shows through everything but the

i have a presentation of only 3 slides.  for some reason, the slides
are not automatically advancing, even though i have the option clicked
in 'slide transition' (set to 3 seconds).  i could've sworn this was
working at first and now it's not.  each of the slides have a

I have created a presentation with several "rounded rectangle" autoshapes
using Powerpoint 2004 (11.3.2) on a Powerbook G4 (OS 10.4.9).
When I send the file to a client (using PCs) for editing, the shapes appear
fine.

I have PP 2007 on a new laptop and have a question regarding Layout and
Design options on slides.  I am trying to put toget a power point program to
run on our closed TV channel and would like to have the slides displayed with
different layouts and designs and colors.  When I ...

For some reason, people want to use PP to print sales sheets for
products. I'd like to make them in, well, anything else, but in case
the salespeople need to edit them, we're using PP. Not my decision.
So I have hundreds of items, each on one page. I've made one page

I'm running Office "X" on Tiger, and have a PPT that was created on
another Mac (Office version unknown).
It opens fine on the Mac, but when I save-it-for-web, and upload
it...the webpage displays fine for Safari 2.0.4, and Safari 1.2...also

I have a serious question
How to change transition timing between the slides?
Are there any other options than presets: FAST, MEDIUM, SLOW?
Coz, I want FADE Transition last longer between 2 different slides.

For any of you who want to learn how to automate PPT and the other Mac Office
apps using AppleScript (and for anyone who plans to do any Office automation in
the upcoming 2008 version), this is something you'll want to check out.  Here's
the announcment verbatim from MacTech:

Can anybody tell me how to make portrait and landscape slides within
the same presentation in Powerpoint 2004 for Mac

Having just converted from PC to Mac, I was using Office 2007.  In PP,
there was an export feature that sent all slides to Word and created
lines for notes under each slide.  It was called something like "save
as notes pages with lines".  Then I could save the Word file as a pdf