Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / February 2008

I just upgraded to Office 2008 for Mac from Office X for the Mac. When I go to slide show presentation and click for the next slide, the next slide comes very slowly - perhaps a 2 second lapse. This was never a problem with Office X. Any ideas on what the problem is or how to speed

Is there a way to insert many pictures at once? (in the windows version its called inserting new album) Thanks!

How to COMPRESS presentation in PowerPoint MAC 08?

I find that if I create a slide show background consisting of an image
that is transparent (e.g. 75%) and then use a PC to show it, the
background transparency is removed resulting in a non-transparent
image that makes it next to impossible to read the copy on the slides.

Mac office 2008 - Have PowerPoint text that is black, but when I make a PDF the text converts to CMYK. Any way to keep that from happening?

Hi all--
Is there a way to configure preferences in powerpoint so that when I open a file--not directly from Powerpoint, but opening a file from Finder that causes PPT to launch--it does not default to the "view slide show mode"? If this happens and I press "Esc" to leave the show

Can open and edit PowerPoint file on Mac, but when I go to print, the print preview only shows white, blank box...and slides do not print...they come out white/blank. ?? Printer works fine in Word and other programs...

Mac is new.

Thoughts?

We have some French Exchange teachers who are using our Macs (10.4) and Office 2004. They would like to have Powerpoint (all other apps if possible) display in French. I found that I can set the computer language in System Prefs, but that does not change the language of PowerPoint.

I have one slide that was created in ppt on a windows machine that has an
active X animation. This does not run in PPT for Mac 2004 or 2008. Does
anyone know of a way to convert this animation into something I can use  on
the Mac?

Just upgraded to Leopard, Office 2004, Acrobat 8 Professional 8.1.2. When printing PowerPoint handouts 4 per page to PDF, bottom two slides on each page are missing/blank.

Is there any way to disable this feature?
- PowerPoint 2008 for Mac OS X 10.4.11.

In PP2004 I used to be able to manually select 'send backward' from the Arrange pulldown, then hit CMD+Y to REPEAT the layer movement one layer at a time, moving the selected object down in the layering quickly but with precise control.

Now, after 'send backward', CMD+Y is disabled

I¹m a new user and have Office 2004. I would like to have the Power Point
view option of seeing the full slide on the right and small versions of the
slides on the left (thumbnail versions ­ I guess)  large enough to  see so
you can easily click on the slide you want.....sorta like ...

I am experiencing a problem with the spacing between characters whilst working in a powerpoint doc. The characters seem to be overlaying each other.

Only certain characters i.e. capital G, numbers etc are affected.

I have tried to copy formatting from other documents that were

I have tried with several ppt. shows to print handouts and can¹t seem to get
it to work....
First, it won¹t let me choose the layout ­ like in Windows where you can
choose 3,4,6 slides to a page...and then when I give it the command to