Mac Problems

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Bill Haskell

Most Windows PowerPoint slide shows that I receive on my IMac as an e-mail
attachment open and freeze up on the first slide. They will not run and the
PC has to be shut down and rebotted. Most frustrating. Any solution?
Ocaisionaly, a show will run, but not most of the time.

Bill
 
Hi Bill,

It is best with received PowerPoint files to save them to your desktop
first, then run them from there. Let us know doing this still leaves the
presentations un readable.


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Bill,

I have tried saving the PowerPoint show on the Mac desktop, and it doesn't
make much difference. Some slide shows go off fine, others freeze up the
Mac and upon force quiting, the note "PowerPoint not responding" appears.
None of the slide shows play the audio on the Mac.

Any more thoughts?

Bill
 
I have tried saving the PowerPoint show on the Mac desktop, and it doesn't
make much difference. Some slide shows go off fine, others freeze up the
Mac and upon force quiting, the note "PowerPoint not responding" appears.
None of the slide shows play the audio on the Mac.
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Two different problems, then.

For the first (freezes) use PPTMac's Help, Check for Updates feature and apply
any updates it suggests. And if you haven't already done it, ask about the
freezing in our companion Public.Mac.Office.Powerpoint group (where the
Macknowedged experts hang out)

As to the audio problems, first thing is to find out whether the audio is
embedded in the presentation or not. Does the same presentation play on a PC
(a different one from the one you created it on)?

Or rightclick the sound's icon, choose Edit Sound Object and look at the bottom
of the resulting dialog box. Does it say "Contained in file"? If not, the
sound is linked, not embedded, and must travel with the PPT.

There are other issues with linked files, but let's find out if that's the
problem first, then deal with it.
 
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