Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / August 2007

Hi, I had very big problem. I have a few  PPT presentations created on
Windows containing scientific stuff and noticed that the equations
appeared as black rectangles, even if they were there (i saw opening
most of them, a few appeared as pictures, using the equation editor).

how can i get powerpoint an excel on my computer

I support a school district where most of its teachers have been using
powerpoint for instruction for quite some time. Some of these teachers have
100s of them.  We converted this summer from Office XP to 2007.  Now I'm
finding very strange things in PPT.  Old presentations show ...

My apology. On August 16th, I inquired about using Flash, Ovation or other
programs to enhance my powerpoint presentations.  I received some great
responses enlightening me to what I could do in Powerpoint.  Unfortunately,
due to a computer problem I have not been able to ...

I am trying to troubleshoot a computer (Mac OS X 10.4) with all the
patches that is crashing in PowerPoint several times a day.  The
program simply closes without any dialog box.
The system log shows the same error each time:

I use a template to control the fonts and their sizes in my
presentations (PPT 2004).
For regular text boxes on 'bullet' slides this is fine.
However, I occasionally create a slide that just contains text without

I have recently upgraded to PPT 2004. This version seems intent on
always converting the first letter of each new line of text in a
callout 'bubble' to upper case. I don't use that many callouts, so
this might not be new in this version, but I don't recall this

I work for a non-profit Diabetes Foundation.  I use a Mac to edit
slide decks for doctors, my boss uses a PC.  When I write comments on
PowerPoint (2004 for Mac) she can see them, but when she writes
comments on the PowerPoint from her computer (Microsoft 2003) they do

I need to open a password protected Powerpoint file on my Powerbook
G4.  I have Office v.X, the Home and Student edition.  Office 2004 for
Mac doesnt have the capability, I dont know about Office 2008 for Mac
that will be out in January.  Is it possible to use Virtual PC and a

Does anyone know how to customise the colors that are available for
font, box or line colors when drawing an organization chart in
Powerpoint?
There is a very limited palette available.

I loved the access to the formatting toolbar (not the formatting
palette) but I think one day I moved it too far up under the menu bar
and poof; its gone. Even when I go under view and re-click the
formatting toolbar I can't seem to get it back.

Working on project - 5 hours, not worried about backing up as autosave
is doing its job every 10.  Sys freezes, really freezes, finally able
to get force quit to open and all apps not responding - first ever,
shut all but pp, wait, still... rehash in head what I did for last 10

I have imported an animated graphic to serve as an animated background
in some slides on a PPT presentation. The animated file is a Quicktime
movie.
I get the file OK and running into PPT but would like to have the

Two machines a G4 dual 800 tower, and a G4 17" Powerbook. The tower
running OS X.4.10, Office 2004 with all the latest updates. completely
uninstalled and re-installed three days ago.
The powerbook, running OS X.4.10 and Office X, latest updates.

I've purchased an entire hymnbook on CD-ROM that uses PowerPoint. Each
hymn is a different powerpoint slide. I simply want to copy all the
verses/text and make a text file to use in MediaShout for our church.
When I'm in PowerPoint, I can open up the files, but can't seem to