Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2008

I remember a way to split the text on a slide so that it creates two or more slides with the same heading
From outline.
but I can't find it now
any suggestions?

I am sure it can be done but I am not sure how to exactly apply different themes to slides in the same presentation. Could anyone help me out?

Presentations with lots of pictures in them become very large. Is there a way to optimize the pictures once they're placed? Is there a way to optimize the size of the whole presentation file?

We have PowerPoint files that were already large (7-14 MB) posted on our Web site for download, and now they have had voice overs added and are quite large (44 MB). Can anyone offer general advice/comments on reducing file size and any ideas on how to get these files to be a ...

I am using Office:mac 2004, and my slideshow works fine on Windows machine,
but when I play Slideshow on Mac G5 with 30" monitor the bottom half of
slide is at the top of the screen, and the top half of lthe slide is at the
bottom. The document is identical on both Windows and Mac ...

Animations do not work properly. Color Typewriter is one example. Any
suggestions?

I cannot save or save as files, program locks up, maybe also on auto save. I
can import or paste from Power Point but then I cannot save it to use. I will
see the first box for save as then it goes to next box and there is no "save"
button. Program starts out with "Utility which ...

I want to print multiple pages to ONE powerpoint slide. In other words, I only have 8 1/2 x 11 paper but want to print out a huge poster by specifying a large page size and printing out a whole bunch of small pages to make up one big poster. How do I set this up? I have specified ...

I continue to find the PP2008 for Mac extremely difficult to use with all kinds or quirks (by comparison, I can do anything with PP2000 for Windows), and the help files are useless. My latest problem is how do I set the default for the color of lines & object fill, other than the ...

I am having problems with getting animations to work properly in PP2007 and
Vista. After saving it as a PP2003 it will work fine on a computer with XP
and PP2003, except for certain new features on 2007. One of the animations in
question is the Color Typewriter option. Short ...

My daughter can't open a college lecture .ppt and gets the following message
"this document might use advanced encryption that is not supported for powerpoint for Mac. If this document was created with Powerpoint for windows, [Yes it was - Vista] ask the author to save it as type ...