Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2008

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I recently switched from office 2004 to office 2008. I used to be able to copy graphs from other programs (and not just excel) into powerpoint and then ungroup them to change them. I can't figure out how to do ...

I'm trying to make a presentation on PP2k3.  I added an mp3 on the first page
and set all the slides to transition automatically but it won't transition
til the song is over.  How can I get it to keep playing the song throughout
the show and to keep changing songs at the same ...

trying to save presentation to floppy but I get message saying "disk is
full." Don't know how to burn a disk.  Can anyone help me? I'm trying to sell
my house and need to make these flyers.
Thanks.

We have problem in office 2004 powerpoint. When you are editing file
long time and making many saving actions occationally the ppt crash.
When you open the powerpoint and the saved ppt file again any savings
has not take place. The file is like it was when it opened first time.

I Hi, I just upgraded today to office 2007. The first issue noticed is that
my text seems to displaying as if it has moved up one line. So when I show a
slide the text is cut off such that only the lower half of the text shows.
This seems to be related to using the arial font - ...

I'm a heavy Powerpoint user, who recently switched from Windows to Mac.  At
first, I continued using Powerpoint 2003, under Parallels.  However, this
was a
somewhat cumbersome solution, so I thought I would try Powerpoint 2008 for the

I commonly open  files created with Powerpoint 2003 (Windows) in Powerpoint
2008 and up to now have not experienced any problems. However, after
upgrading to SP1 many of the objects/images do not display properly.  In
particular there seems to be problems with images that originally ...

In the standard powerpoiint template there are two text fields, one
for heading and one for text. I want to put in a third text field in
my template, with a different font and colour, for a section or
chapter heading, but can't find a way to do it.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I have a very simple excel table that I've pasted into ppt as an excel object so that others using the presentation can resort and customize at will. When I double click on the table, I get the message, "There ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel
I cannot get the sound to play in a ppt movie saved as a quicktime movie.

I am getting a message from a couple of slided in my PowerPoint presentation
that I created on my Mac and am trying to run on a PC that say:
QuickTime and a
TIFF(LZW) decompressor

I have set up a presentation to run continually, the first time
through the
presentation the audio playes fine through a series of slides as it
should,

Today we tried to run a powerpoint through a mac, it looked ok on laptop but
formatting was lost and only displayed with notes through projector.
Can anyone help

When I was using Poerpoint on the PC, I was able to select a row of
text and use a keyboard shortcut (OPTION CTRL- UP/DOWN ARROW?) to move
the entire row up or down a row. I believe you can do the same in
Word.  I can't seem to find it in PPT in Office 2008.  Is it avaialble

I have 2 monitors. When I run PowerPoint (from Office 2004) on a
presentation and click Slideshow, one monitor gets my presentation, and the
other gets a bunch of other windows, like "next slide" etc. Is there any way
to customize or control this? What I want to see is "elapsed ...