Re: Animation compatibility - Mac to PC?

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From: Jim Gordon MVP (goldkey74_at_WarmerThanWarmMail.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:41:32 -0500

Hi Sandra,

PowerPoint 2004 has a built-in feature called Compatibility Checker. You
can use it to determine which features are supported by whatever
versions of PowerPoint you have for both Mac and Windows. It will
automatically fix your presentation to work with the version(s) you specify.

This link explains how the new compatibility checker works:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/using.aspx?pid=usingoffice2004&type=howto&article=/mac/LIBRARY/how_to_articles/office2004/of_compatibility.xml

All aspects of motion path animations are available in PowerPoint 2004
*except* for the user interface that lets you control them. If you wish
that Microsoft would add them to PowerPoint for Macintosh, here's the
URL to use to tell Microsoft:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

-Jim

-Jim 

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sszilasi@imc-nj.com wrote:
> Greetings all - It's been a while since I've posted here - I was
> running PPT '98 on OS 9 for the longest time, but in the last month
> we've finally upgraded to OS X (yay!!!) and have gone straight to PPT
> 2004 so it looks like I've got some quick learning to do!
> 
> My first big project on the new version will be developing a PPT for a
> client running PPT 2002 or 2003 on the PC (not quite sure which version
> just yet) and likely to involve complex animations.  I'm excited by all
> the new animation features available to me - this is a *huge* leap
> forward from '98! - but if I understand what I read correctly, there
> are some animations that work on the Mac, but not on the PC and vice
> versa?
> 
> Does a comprehensive comparison of available animations exist
> somewhere?  My google searches haven't turned up much yet...  We'd like
> to quickly get a good handle on what's going to be available to us so
> we don't sound like idiots in front of the client.
> 
> We also have one PC in the agency running PPT 2003, so we could end up
> developing the presentation on the Mac, and then adding animations on
> the PC if need be (sounds like we'll need to do this for motion paths
> at least...), but if it turns out the client is running PPT 2002 we may
> still encounter version issues.
> 
> I'm a little disappointed that motion path animation is not yet
> available on the Mac... :oP
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> -Sandra
>

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