Compatability Report, Pictures and Powerpoint on PC

[Matt]

Anyone know why the compatability report doesn't report the most useful thing
which is if a user has copied and pasted pictures into there Mac 2004
Powerpoint presentation from the web and Powerpoint saves them in some Mac
Quicktime format. When you try to open them on any PC regardless if
Quicktime is installed you always get the " The required Quick-Time
DeCompressor is missing" box instead of the picture itself.

Any ideas if this issue is going to be addressed as I often have to open PPT
files back on the mac export the pictures save them as JPG's and re-insert
them.

 

[Mickey Stevens]

It's a known issue, but, at the moment, I know of no workaround.

 

[Andrew Chiang [MSFT]]

Hello Mickey (and all those who are experiencing the issue below),

I have reproduced the issue and found that it is not specific to PowerPoint.
It also can occur in Word and Excel if you take the same user actions. It
just so happens that people are much more likely to insert images into
presentations than Word or Excel files.

Basically, the workaround (to be on the safe side) is to avoid dragging and
dropping or copying and pasting bitmaps/images from other applications. In
certain scenarios w/certain source apps, you may hit this issue.

It's best to use Insert Picture > From File... in each of the three
applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

If you do find specific images that still exhibit this same issue when
inserted via Insert Picture > From File, we'd like to hear about it and
possibly get a copy of the image.

Thanks,
Andrew