Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / February 2008

In PPT 02/03/07 There's a checkbox in Slide Show > Set Up Show under Performance "use hardware graphics acceleration".
I can't seem to find this option in PPT 2008 Mac.
Is there some other way to turn it on?
Thanks!

I have just designed new PowerPoint templates for my client. Now I
want to deploy these in my organization so we move quickly and
smoothly to apply the new design.
Can PowerPoint 2008 help by allowing me to add custom themes and table

I have several PowerPoint files that use movies (.avi). I keep the file with the movies in the same folder as the PowerPoint document that uses them.
But when I move the folder to another location and try to run the presentation, PowerPoint can't find the movie files. My only ...

I have a client that is requesting I design him "power point backgrounds". It's been a while since I last used Power Point, can someone give me tips on how to set up custom slides or back grounds?
Thanks

Hi, when I am inserting a video clip on a power point slide, the video doesn't work well during slide show (i.e. momentarly freezing image while sound continues). My presentation have about 50 slides, but ja few with video clip. Nb: when unsing the same presntation on my PC, I ...

I have a power point presentation for work that was made on a PC with what
appears to be several slides with flash 8.0 or flash animation.  When I use
my Mac and Mac Office 2004 Power Point, I can not see these videos.  I
updated to the Adobe Flash Player 9.0 and that is not a ...

Is it possible to hide the background of slides when they are printed
as notes? I've been told that this is possible with the Windoze
version of PPT but I can't find any likely looking option in the Print
dialog box.

I've read some messages from 2006, talking about a bug affecting the
display on a cinema 30'' monitor. All I can say is that the bug still
here. We've just bought a 30'' display and the result is that we cannot
open a ppt file and display it normally in a slideshow.

Hi, I am new to Power Point and new to finding information on forums.

I want to know if I can create one of those inspirational slide shows with words that show up on top of full-screen photos so I can send it via email to all my friends, etc.

If so, how? Is there a step by

I create a presentation on the pc. It has inserted tiff's, jpegs, lots of slides (178). Opens on a dell xps Intel Core 2 duo with 2 Gigs Ram in under 20 seconds. Take it to the Mac running OSX 10.4, Dual 2GHz G5 , 1Gig ram, nothing else running and it takes around 5 minutes before

I have Office 2004 for Mac. When I receive a PowerPoint-file (slide-show) created on a PC, I can't hear any music that goes with the slide show. Who can tell me what to do to have the music? Many thanks!

How can I send my powerpoint presentation to Microsoft Word. I have PowerPoint for Mac 2008. When I go to File -> Send to -> Microsoft Word, it opens Word but nothing is there. No dialogue box appears as it does in PowerPoint 2007. Please help!

when I click on faded toolbar, nothing works.  unable to create new
docutment.  only option given was "page set up"...that's it!  please help.

Where did the geniuses at MS hide the selection tools (marquee, lasso)?
in the old power point it was in the "picture" part of the formatting palette under "selection".

Is there a format tool in Powerpoint (the format paintbrush?)