Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2008

I'm just appalled by the problem I'm having when opening files on our local Microsoft server. Powerpoint files will open, and when saved will complain of a file access error. If I decline to save, and look at the file in the Finder it's been set to zero bytes size, and there is no

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
Hi,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
There seems to be a glitch when using the "Shading Fill Color" icon when modifying a table.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I made a slide in my old mac (iBook OS X10.3, powerpoint older version), and recently copied that file to my new computer ( OS X10.5, powerpoint 2004). The problem is that the picture in the slide is flipped. ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I've just started using a new macbook with leopard. When I go to select a new design template for my powerpoint pres. I can't see the designs, all I see is a generic Powerpoint logo. My old iBook (tiger) showed each slide ...

I hope you can help me with this. I do Powerpoint presentations on a
Windows PC with PPT 2003. Now one of my clients has written me with
the following problem:
"When we receive a presentation from you the font looks ok. However,

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Hello,

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I made a short movie and tried to play in Powerpoint. The movie becomes slightly bigger and defocused when I play it in powerpoint. But, it worked well with quicktime player. Folks, do you have any idea what is ...

I have multiple PC powerpoint 2003 presentations with AVI movies in them. I just purchased a MAC with powerpoint 2004. I opened my presentations using powerpoint 2004 and the AVIs play, but will not loop continuously despite setting that option. If I reinsert the AVI it will then ...

I loaded office 08 with leopard and it is useless
firstly powerpoint does not allow it to recognise any dataprojectors
next powerpoint crashes my system
I really wanted the product to work - apparently the problem is to do with the way it handles art objects -

I just tried using 2008 for my first presentation since the update. It was a
disaster (although the talk went fine).
Problems
1. Cropping pictures was VERY difficult. It just didnt crop very well at

I want to outline a font not a shadow similar to Illustrator (stroke) where you can set the thickness and color. I use a lot of white fonts and would like them to be outlined so they will stand out better, I am using 11.3.5 and have version 12.0 but haven't installed it yet.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SCAN AN IMAGE INTO POWERPOINT?

HOW DO I GET THE FIRST LINE OF A SLIDE TO FADE WHEN THE SECOND LINE COMES IN?

I received a file from a client with Japanese. I can view it fine in PowerPoint 2007 in Parallels Windows XP, but the Japanese characters are garbled in PowerPoint 2008. I have enabled Japanese. Is there a way to correct this?