Launch of PowerPoint Forum

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Stuart Colville

We have recently lauched a forum with a section dedicated to an open
discussion of PowerPoint please feel free to drop by and add your questions
or experiences with PowerPoint. We are particularly interested in any
solutions to some of the problems with using different versions of
PowerPoint.

For example:

1. Bitmaps are reversed (mirror image) in presentations that have been
produced on PP97 and played on PP2002. The same issue does not occur when
played on PP2000

2. Some older generated presentations will not open on PP2002(XP) Causes
unknown.

3. Animations created in PP2000 can cause machines to freeze when played
back on PP2002.

Obviously we have yet to see what impact PowerPoint 2003 will have.

the link is:

http://www.eclipse-presentations.co.uk/userforum/viewforum.php?f=6

Regards,

Stuart Colville.
 
There are solutions to all of these problems, and at least two of the
three are posted here fairly often. Why send users elsewhere to post
problems for which you don't have answers?
 
Why start another forum when this one exists and has heavy traffic and good
support? If you have questions that you can't answer, just post them here
and others will happily help.
 
The idea for our Forum was to give something back to our client's (or casual
visitors to our site) that may have questions relating to PowerPoint and all
other areas of Audio Visual subjects.

I don't want to move users away from here - this being the best place
for people to get there questions on PowerPoint answered. My aim was to
invoke interest in the people that have the skills and the interest to
participate (of their own free will) in our community.

Chucking the invite out there seemed like a good way to generate interest
but if that has been misunderstood then I apologise. My post was designed to
stimulate interested parties rather than demonstrate that we are looking for
people to solve our own issues/questions.

Forums are all about contributions. If you have some gems of advice then you
could post them on our forum and everyone that comes to our site would be
grateful.

My view was that it could become something quite useful and that answers to
the questions that come up time and time again could be answered there, a
permanent record/resource for people to use.

Regards,

Stuart.
 
Forums are all about contributions.

Right. And hundreds of answers to user questions are contributed here.
Weekly, if it's a slow week. Daily, more often.
If you have some gems of advice then you
could post them on our forum and everyone that comes to our site would be
grateful.

You haven't explained why starting another forum, when one already exists,
is a good idea. If you want do people a favor, steer them to someplace
where they can find the answers to their questions. Here. The many FAQs
and other sites maintained by regular visitors here.
My view was that it could become something quite useful and that answers to
the questions that come up time and time again could be answered there, a
permanent record/resource for people to use.

Again, why duplicate the effort? Try www.pptfaq.com where a ton of the info
and ideas collected here and in other places over the last several years has
already been assembled.
 
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