Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2008

I'm on Leopard, with Adobe CS3 installed, using either Save as PDF or
Acrobat's PDF 8.0 printer driver.
Yes, I know that PPT is already known for its bloated PDF's, but the
new version 12.0.0 is much worse. I used a 12-slide file, with just

I'm using MS PowerPoint 2003 and I'd like to individually categorize each
slide in a single presentation - some slides may fall into multiple
categories.  I would then like to search that presentation for all slides
matching a search category.

Does anyone know how to turn the GRID on in Powerpoint 2008 ?

I have a laptop PC for work running Windows 2000 with Microsoft Office
2000 and a new Mac Pro with Office 2004 at home. I do PP presentations
for work and for family. Some are very large files - timed slide shows
with music and animation. Sometimes with more then 200 slides. I am

HELP.
I have put together a wonderful presentation using photos in the slides, but now the file when put into an email, won't go. I'm thinking the photos are "too big" but I can't figure out what to do next. I have already tried "zipping" the file and even that didn't go.
I ...

Slideshows made on Powerpoint 2008 are shown half top and half botton. Any sugestons?
Marcelo

This is available/possible in every other version, and still in Windows. How can I do it in PowerPoint 2008?

Does anyone know why this script will work in PPT Office XP, but not in PPT for Office 2004 on Mac?
Do I need to modify it for it to work on a Mac?
Thanks
Here's the script:

In Powerpoint 2008 I have a table that is formatted using one of the table templates.
When I try to shade a cell using Borders and Shading instead it just changes the font color.
Am I missing something? Is this a bug?
John

I am using powerpoint, for song lyrics, and when i press enter, it puts extra spacing between lines. I know how to fix it in each one, but how do i make it the default? I don't want to have to change it every single time i make a new powerpoint.

I created a Powerpoint presentation using Office for MAC (2008); everything works fine but the movie files won't play on a PC. I first used AVI files and got the error message "QuickTime and a DV/DVCPRO -
NTSC decompressor are needed to see this picture."
I tried MPEG1 and got a ...

When I type in the speaker notes box, the spaces in between the words fluctuate, and sometimes the words overlap. I have tried to save then close the file then reopen to see if it resets, but no change. This is my first time using PPT on Mac.

NONE OF THE ANIMATIONS FROM CLIPART WORK ON THE NEW MAC OFFICE.

I have created a large PowerPoint presentation on my Mac using
PowerPoint 2004 which consists of almost all .jpg slides (ie one .jpg
file on each slide).  I sent it urgently to my client who cannot read
the file on his PC (in PowerPoint 2007 and also 2003).  Two pictures

I cannot seem to open my vista created power point pptx file in power point for my mac I get a Cannot access message