PowerPoint PC/Mac Problems

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From: Andy Cooper (andy_at_financial-it.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:07:48 +0000

Hi

Iım a business trainer, recently switched from a PC running Office 2003 to a
Mac G5 running Office 2004
I used to create my course notes on the PC by using the ³Send to Word²
feature in PowerPoint 2003 to send all my slides into a Word doc. Then I can
edit the word doc, add headers and footers and tables of contents, etc. I
amazed to find that I simply canıt do this on the Mac.

So I created my slides in PowerPoint 2004 and then copied them to my PC. I
used PowerPoint 2003 to ³Send to Word² all the PowerPoint Files (14 of them)
and then saved the separate word files back on my Mac. I expected to be able
to combine all the word files into a single file.

On opening the word files in Word 2004 all the graphics are mucked up, and
the slides are useless. The colours are completely wrong. Iıve tried saving
the files as an older version of Word on the PC, Iıve tried the
<CTRL><SHIFT><F9> trick to de-link the graphics from PowerPoint but all to
no avail. I simply canıt properly open the files in Word 2004. I even tried
MacLink Plus to convert the word files but that just crashed (the newest
version as well!).

Microsoft have no idea what to suggest.
There is also another bug in the handouts pages of PowerPoint 2004. If I
insert a page number into an existing text box, say for example to write
³Page 4² instead of just ³4² the page number prints out as <#>
It only works for page numbers if there is no text alongside the number in
the text box.

Microsoft Tech. Support have confirmed that this appears to be a bug, but
again offer no solution.
Like most people on this newsgroup, I canıt believe Office 2004 for the Mac
is so poor, given what we are asked to pay for it (no cheap OEM versions
like for the PC).

Andy Cooper

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