Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / December 2007

I am experiencing a new phenomenon when I insert a Quicktime movie
into Powerpoint.  The movie can be viewed properly when I view it in
"slide sorter" format, but when I play the slideshow, the movie is
jerky.  I have been inserting Quicktime movies into Powerpoint for

I have decided that I am tired of all the crap that I get put through
when my co-workers make powerpoint presentations on a Mac, and when
they take it on a PC it has problems.
I have had classes, I have talked till I am blue in the face, and now

I am working with Powerpoint on a Mac, and for some reason, the
special characters are showing up as black boxes instead of actual
characters.  These special characters are mainly math functions and
Greek letters.  I know it works fine on a PC, but can a Mac not read

im having trouble to open a power point file after removing a virus from the
Thumb drive where the Power poit file was save. Is there anywhere i can get
the file back gain or repair it ??? i dont get any error msg as well.

I need to convert a Powerpoint slide show to be viewed on an Ipod.
When I was in the Apple Store a tech showed me how to do it but I
don't have a Mac so I can't recreate it. Is there a SAVE AS or CONVERT
button in Powerpoint for Macs that can convert it easily? Any other

There seems to be a problem with some of the OS X 10.5 printer divers
and PowerPoint. When rendering a presentation for printing, the
content and formatting is FUBAR.
I experienced this with the latest driver for a Lexmark C534. However,

I'm creating a scoring system for a quiz where I need to show the score for
each team and then resort the results to show which team is in the lead.
Is the only way to do this to create the data in Excel and 'copy' it into a
chart in PowerPoint, or does anyone have any better ideas?

In one of two computers, when I create a PDF file from a PPT 2007 file with
shadows and transparencies, using the "save as PDF" (not print to ADOBE PDF
oedrer), the shadows and transparencies are not kept in the PDF file. In the
other computer it works fine.

PPT v.X (10.1.9 (061018)) starts to launch, then quits unexpectedly
under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
The is the version of PPT v.X with all updates applied, including the
10.1.9 Update.

OK:  I am producing object QTVRs on a Mac (10.5) for presentation by a
client in PPT 2008 on his Vista platform.
Yes, its messy.  AND I have not visited this topic since 2004:  Office
(!) Thankfully, there's no audio, of course.

any text i insert on a presentation, the pc does not recognize it. it
only recognizes what i write directly on the original text boxes of
the presentation. so all the information i inserted is lost when i
open the file on a pc. what's going on?

I switched from a PC to a MacBook earlier this year.  I used
Powerpoint for the PC all the time.  I cannot find how to use the
Group and Ungroup feature in my Mac version of Powerpoint.  I use this
to modify illustrated images that are usually EPS files.  Can anyone

I have a couple .ppt and .pps files (no larger than 2 MB) sent to me
as Entourage attachments. They will  open OK, but then freeze,
requiring a force quit.
No problem with my own internal PPT files.

When I go to print a powerpoint from 2004, I don't have the Print What
box that normally would allow you to set slides per page, notes, etc.
I just get the OS X generic print dialog box.  I have about 200 macs I
support and it looks like about %75 have this problem, but I can't

We recently had a family reunion, and one member of the family put
together a very nice slideshow of family pictures, accompanied by music,
using PowerPoint. Many members of the family would like to have this
slideshow, but not all of them own PowerPoint. Is there a way to export ...