Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2008

I am new to Mac - how come when I do a file save as on my powerpoint file (which is 25.5MB), it saves as a pdf file that is bigger than the original powerpoint file? I need to shrink it so I can email it out easily - to maybe 6MB - thoughts? Thanks!!

I made a presentation with hyperlinks to navigate between chapters and
charts. I did this on a mac using Powerpoint 2004.
When I sent the presentation to our customer using Powerpoint XP and to my
home pc using Powerpoint 2003 the hyperlinks get lost!

I have a problem opening a organization chart, becouse when i try to open, appear "there isn't enough memory available to read micrisoft organization chart", But i have 25 GB of memory available.

WHAT I DO

I especially like using the Screen Beings from an earlier version of Office. How can I import them into Office 2008? The simply Import command doesn't seem to work to import the folder? Do I have to do them one at a time? Argghh.
Please advise.

I created a portfolio on my PC for job interviews. I have recently purchased a MAC and when I try to open this powerpoint file everything is fine except the pictures do not show up. If I click where the picture should be I can see the white resizing boxes, but still can not see the

What is the best way to create a presentation in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac that will be presented on a PC in PowerPoint 2003?

I want to be able to combine slides together so that when I print I'll have fewer slides to print! How do I combine 2 or more slides? How can I do this? Someone Help!!!

I wish to create a Powerpoint using many pictures as individual slides. Is there a way to do this without importing the pictures one at a time?

Just installed Office:Mac 2008, trying to create numerous guide lines in PP. Even in PP 2004 working with guides was annoying at best (difficult to select/copy/move, limit to # of guides, no way to lock guides, etc), but PP2008 is UNBEARABLE:

1. find it EVEN HARDER THAN BEFORE

my colleagues use macs with 10.4.7 and powerpoint 10.3.9; lastly we
need to exchange our powerpoint files with windows-users. everything
works except powerpoints with videos - the customer always see a
message like "to see the movie you need the quicktime decompressor

I have always pasted excel tables and charts into powerpoint as images, not excel objects. I prefer this for lots of reasons.

Problem : ever since I upgraded to Leopard and Office 2008 the excel tables appear "fuzzy" when I select "Paste Special" them as a picture into Powerpoint.

I was wondering how to select multiple items (words, characters, etc.) that are not next to each other in PP08. I could do this in Word08 by holding the Command key while selecting multiple items. However, this same technique does not seem to work in PowerPoint. Was this an oversight,

i have an image of my logo in three different formats: pdf, eps (CMYK)
and eps (PMS).  when i expand any of those images in powerpoint, they
pixelate badly.  i need to be able to expand and contract the image
and have it appear nice and smooth at any size.  what do i have to do

PPt 2003/XP
I have inserted a vidoe file into a slide and selected "automatically play."
The file extension is .mov.   It does not, however, play; not automatically,
not if I click on the file in the PPt window nor if I click "Play" in the PPt

We have obviously been seeing the desire for the Office 2004 templates on
Mactopia, so we have now posted them on Mactopia. You can get them at:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/templates.mspx.
Thanks!