powerpoint animation XP versus v.x

[YoungDr2]

I read previous posts in this forum about new animation features in
powerpoint XP not being compatible with other versions including
powerpoint v.X. I have a Windows machine at work and have recently
purchased a G5 for home use and immediately encountered the problem on
the Office v.X test-drive. I have many powerpoint files making heavy
use of the XP-style animation on my Windows machine and now find I
cannot edit them on my Mac. Since the G5 is incompatible with virtual
PC, I can't find an easy workaround. Does anyoneknow of a planned
update of office for the mac that will soon address these issues or
another workaround of which I am unaware? P.S. I have used power point
since about 1986 firstl on the mac and later windows and would hate to
have to switch to an alternate program.

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi,

PowerPoint XP documentation warns that the new animations it has only work
in PowerPoint XP.

A new version of Office for Macintosh is in the works right now, so sending
feature requests to Microsoft is a good thing to do right now. Put one
request per message either into the Feedback feature on PowerPoint's help
menu or to this URL:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

Feature requests posted to newsgroups do not get added to the request
database, so please use the link or Help's feedback to make your request
(that the new version of PowerPoint support the transitions, for example).

Apple spoiled my Christmas present to myself. I had planned to get a G5, but
without "little endian" processor support that purchase went out the window.
Microsoft is busy trying to make VPC run without the processor support, but
my guess is that every instruction will have to be translated for the G5 so
I would expect VPC to run 1/2 speed compared to what it could had Apple not
ripped "little endian" from the G5 design specifications. I wonder if a G4
PCI upgrade card will work with a G5?

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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