Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / April 2008

Im trying to make a template for a presentation that is really and truly
blank.  No matter what I try, adding a new slide gives me a slide with a
placeholder for a title and a placeholder for text.  I've tried making a new
slide design, a new template, and removing everything from ...

Hi guys....
I am trying to track down an issue with Powerpoint, Entourage, and
Gmail.
Recently we went over to google apps and when we send ppt files were

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
How do you get the actual Word document to be included w/ a Powerpoint presentation so that when the presentation is emailed to someone, they can open the doc. that the Powerpoint slide is linked to?

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I need to use the scribble tool repeatedly and don't want to keep going to the shapes menu.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I created a chart in PowerPoint 2004 for Mac using the embedded Graph function, and my client can't edit it in his 2007 pc version. When he double clicks on the chart, it tells him the chart must be converted ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
What is the best format and size when placing images into powerpoint. Trying to keep PowerPoint files sizes small. Have the photos look great on both a mac and a pc.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
My office colleague used Office 2003 created a bar chart and sent over to me. I edited by Office 2008 Mac, then I sent back to her. When she double clicked the chart area to edit in Office 2003, it says "the ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel
On a Powerpoint Slide Show (PPS), using the hyperlink/action 'End Show' closes a slide show - but when you try and open another PPS (or the same one) by double clicking or via launching from another app the file ...

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
Processor: Power PC
How do I animate one section at a time of one text box and how do I create a custom path for each animation?

Hoping someone can help??...

I've installed a font 'BD Brick' into my font book, I can see it in drop down menu of fonts yet when I try to use it it doesn't work!..just defaults to Century Gothic I think? (it used to work fine in Office 2004, just installed 20008 today!)??

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

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
In PowerPoint 2004 it was possible to stipulate the speed of a custom animation. For example, I have set the speed of an animation to 300 seconds to give myself a 5-minute countdown timer. In PowerPoint 2008 it ...

I need a way to save a document with PowerPoint 2003 as OpenXML Presentation
Macro enabled (pptm). "PpSaveAsFileType" got a value for that, but it seems
those values differ under Office 2003. It's "25" with PowerPoint2007, can
someone tell me which number to use with PP 2003?

After some use, I've noticed that the responsiveness of powerpoint to typing starts to slow down, eventually getting lags of as much as one second between pressing a key and the character showing up on the screen. This happens on files originally created in PowerPoint 2008, when Powerpoint

It's too slow to be useful when displaying slideshows. Some slides take 3
seconds to display, while the same file in PowerPoint 04 is instant. What
gives?
Keynote files are instant. PowerPoint 04 files running under Rosetta are