Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / November 2007

Hi... Every time I open a ppt file with movie links embedded,  it takes
forever to open because the Mac keeps searching for the links.  Often I am
using old ppt decks and the movie links don¹t exist anymore.  I just want
the deck to open quickly.  I don¹t care about old movie links. ...

In Powerpoint 2007, full version, When in a French paragraph there is a
succession of "comma" "word" "comma" this will sometimes create automatically
a new paragraph : impossible to get the following part of the sentence to
stay within the current paragraph.

Why do the fonts look bitmapped (blocky?) when I export my
presentation as a Movie? HELP!!

Can some kind person please confirm if I can use Powerpoint (Mac) to compress
an image and make it smaller  but still retaining the whole image.
I have saved a jpeg image to my hd which is 165 kb in size. I need to
compress this to 128 kb in order to post on a discussion group. I ...

IN  windows you can link xl sheet data to a PPT slide and when you
change the original sheet it reflects in the slide.
Why is it that when you try the same thing in OFF2004 it inserts an
embedded object that can be manipulated but in word it just links as

I'm making a standard PowerPoint presentation. I "Rehearse Timing",
set specific transitions and customized animations for my text, and
one of my slides has an animated GIF image.
The problem is, when I click "Make Movie", it does make a movie but:

The only thing I like better about PowerPoint 2003 for pc is that you
can choose to have the slide sorter in the left hand column in Normal
view instead of the outline list. If you do mainly ppictorial slides,
this is a big time saver. I can't find any way to change this in

Hello - I've had my macbook for about 2 months now and I have problems
using office 2004 for mac.
My powerpoint presentations (which are usually pretty large: 150 MB)
quit unexpectedly a number times while editing them.

PPS files received from Windows don't play the embedded (third party) wav
sounds on the Mac. Standard Microsoft wav sounds play correctly though. Any
idea why?
I can see the first slide's transition includes the wav file, in  menu Slide

I am trying to give a powerpoint presentation using Mac Office 2004
(version 11.3.5). The powerpoint file is somewhat large - about 100
slides and 17 MB. I want to use Presenter Tools to give my
presentation because I have detailed notes for each slide. Every time

I have Office 2004, 11.3.5.
My copy of Powerpoint is evidently corrupt. Fortunately, it's not
corporeal, otherwise I'd run a meat cleaver through it, as it's caused
me no end of pain for the past 3 days while I've tried to repair

I just got a new Macbook Pro and it comes with a small remote control.
Is it possible to use it to flip the slides during a Powerpoint 2004
presentation?
If so, how?

When I create a powerpoint presentation ( usually 1 page) I would like
to send it to Word so that I can then email to people who don't have
powerpoint.
I see there is a link to send to word, but when I do that, Word opens,

When I finish a slide show on my Mac sent me from a PC friend the program
will not manually quit. I have to force quit everytime. Any suggestions
please.

Anyone know how to change the default widow size at Start-up/Open?
I started using a larger LCD and Mac PowerPoint has the annoying habit of
opening the main PPT file window to take over 95% of the screen even though
the actual slide size only needs 35% of the screen (at 100% ...