pc powerpoint object unknown to mac

[jlwoody04]

I am seeing powerpoint slide objects that were added on a pc with word
2003 show up in mac 2004 but unable to edit them because mac 2004 shows
them as unknown objects. Does anybody know if this is a known problem
or is there a work around to allow you to edit these with powerpoint
and resave on mac.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

A lot depends upon what kinds of objects were put into the presentation on
the PC.

If the object is a Word or Excel object then it should be OK. If the object
is from some other application then it probably won't work.

The idea behind an embedded object is that if you double-click it, then the
application that created the object opens and you can edit the object. It
works for Word and Excel on the Mac because there are native versions of
those applications and they both understand OLE. Chances are other PC
applications won't open natively on the Mac and/or won't know about OLE on
the Mac.

Please see if you can determine what kind of object was added and let us
know, then we can give you a better answer.

Thanks.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I am seeing powerpoint slide objects that were added on a pc with word
2003 show up in mac 2004 but unable to edit them because mac 2004 shows
them as unknown objects. Does anybody know if this is a known problem
or is there a work around to allow you to edit these with powerpoint
and resave on mac.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
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[jlwoody04]

it is a power point slide object
Since mac supports power point I would have thought it would be able
to open
this object, but after a little more exploring it looks like you can
not insert
a power point slide into word on MAC.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Yes, that appears to be correct. I tried and Word 2004 was unable to insert

object and have that object be a PowerPoint presentation. Only Excel and

Word objects were listed as available to embed.

OLE support for Office Mac is not as robust as it is on the PC.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

it is a power point slide object
Since mac supports power point I would have thought it would be able
to open
this object, but after a little more exploring it looks like you can
not insert
a power point slide into word on MAC.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info