Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / April 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I could do anything with PP 2000, and I am now going nuts trying to use PP2008 for Mac. When I draw a line, if I click on both ends the line goes off into outer-space. If I click on the first point and then ...

I am trying to update some charts embedded in a powerpoint document.
Unfortunately when I look at the chart (an object of type "shape type chart")
I can see not a single property that I could use to update the data.
What I am trying to do is something like

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Help, I'm working on simple 60slide Presentation and Powerpoint 2008 on Leopard runs really really slow... for e.g.: I typ a word and about 2-3secondes after I typed it on the keyboard the word appears on the ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
My wife created her first presentation with audio files last week. Everything worked fine. She knows PPT pretty well but had never needed to add audio before now. The audio files were small .wav files recorded by ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
Every time I press ALT+delete, PowerPoint crashes. This is easily reproducible, and seems to be limited to a specific ppt file. I am not sure what is special about this particular file, but it happens ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I've tried adding my own templates to the default location, but they are still not appearing when I press the custom themes button. Is there anything I can do? I can browse and find them, but then I can't preview the template ...

I've noticed that every time I open a file with power point 2008, that the date modified timestamp is updated (before I've changed the file in any way, or saved any changes). Is there any way to prevent this from happening? This is annoying!

I am making some PP slides for my Sunday School presentation. I am using MS
PP 2007. Un like the earlier version of PP (2003), I can't seem to find the
"indent in" and "indent out" buttons so I subordinate some of my bullet
statements. Can someone tell me where to find those ...

Could some kind soul please explain to me how I can determine the
paths of movies in the new PPT (powerpoint:mac 2008)?
Is it possible at all?
I suppose, the same problem exists for PPT 2007 on windows ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
the only forum I could find for this question is in 2008, but hopefully the answer applies to 2004 too. I'm really frustrated at the way the toolbars have a habit of slipping out of position and/or the PPT ...

What took me about 15 seconds to do in the older version of powerpoint now
took me an hour and I still didn't get results..
All i wanted was a simple vertical light-dark-light gradient, but there are
so many pull down menus' angles and pre-fab'd samples that I can't make a

Is there a way to have the speaker notes display directly on the slides
during a Powerpoint presentation.  (Without having to publish as a web page..
that's the only place I see the Show speaker notes setting)   Just need a
regular PPT that shows speaker notes directly on the ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
In the notes view I have used several different colors since there will be different presenters even on the same page. When I view the presentation though all of the notes are black. Suggestions?

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I've created a PPT presentation, but it desappeared from my USB key (all PPT files have gone) and I can't find it on my PPT application either. Whenever I try to ipen the last created document, it says it is no ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
I need to have a video clip that I've inserted be fairly small on a slide, then when clicked, to go full screen, then return to original size when done playing.
On a PC this option to set is in "edit Movie Object" following a ...