Slides not appearing when moved to windows ppt

[Martin Storey]

HI all,


We've made a medim sized presentation (60 slides) on powerpoint 2004 for
mac...

At first the whole file would not open - with the error "PowerPoint can'
read <path to file>"

The we tied creating a new file on the mac and pasting the slides into it.

This powerpoint (2003) on windows can open But... some of the slides come
out entirely blank...

Then we tried copy and pasting individual elements.

Some cause the slide to come out entirely blank.

Others are intact.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason to which elements on the mac side
causes the failure. There's nothing transparent or special about the text
boxes we;re moving.

Sometimes "Word wrap text in autoshape" or "resize autoshape to fit text" in
the text box tab in the format autoshape dialog seem to make a difference,
but it's not predictable.

Can anyone help?

Martin

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

This powerpoint (2003) on windows can open But... some of the slides come
out entirely blank...

On the Windows side, have you applied all current service releases?
The original release of PPT2003 had a habit of doing exactly this, even with
files it had created itself.

Fire it up, click Help, Check for Updates, let Bill do what he feels he needs
to with it.



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[Bentley]

Steve -

Any idea why JPGs and other images don't load when a PPT created on
Office 2004 Mac don't transfer across to any PC format?? Even after
the 2003 update has been installed for PCs?

Any insight would be appreciated!

David

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve -

Any idea why JPGs and other images don't load when a PPT created on
Office 2004 Mac don't transfer across to any PC format?? Even after
the 2003 update has been installed for PCs?

Are they CMYK JPGs? That can give some versions of PPT utter fits.

Any insight would be appreciated!

David

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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