My powerpoints on other computers.....?

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Dan Stanbrook-Evans

Please could someone stop me pulling my hair out?

I am completely new to powerpoints and think that I have done rather well
with pic's, animation, sounds adn colours etc but why do they not work the
same on other computers?

I have tried via e-mail and although they come through basically the same
quite a lot of the slides don't use the same actions. I have also saved to
floppy and the result is the same.

Any ideas would be very useful,

Thanks
 
How your presentation is viewed on other computers is based on the version of
PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewer installed on that particular machine.

Please *DON'T EVER* save directly to a floppy disk. Your chances of losing your
presentation are absolutely fantastic. Save to your Hard Drive, and then copy to
the floppy if space allows.

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Please could someone stop me pulling my hair out?

I am completely new to powerpoints and think that I have done rather well
with pic's, animation, sounds adn colours etc but why do they not work the
same on other computers?

I have tried via e-mail and although they come through basically the same
quite a lot of the slides don't use the same actions. I have also saved to
floppy and the result is the same.

Any ideas would be very useful,

Thanks
 
I have a very similar question. I am an avid user of PowerPoint, but have gone straight from Office 97 to Office 2003, without really ever working on any versions in between. I am curious if some of the Custom Animations that I am thinking are new are REALLY new (i.e., created for use in Office 2003 for the first time) or if they have been in previous editions (Office 2000, Office XP, etc.).

I am creating these elaborate presentations with these animations for people who use Office 2000 or higher (mostly, though Office 2000). The Animation in question includes the following

1. Entrance/Emphasis/Exit/Motion Paths - In Office 2000, was Animation characterized like this
2. Emphasis - In Office 2000, were the animations listed under Emphasis available
3. Would animation be the same for the PC version of Office 2000 as it would for the Mac version

I am creating these for use in public schools which have Office 2000, but for Macs. Additionally, I have recorded sound. I have saved a few of these to a CD and have played them on an older Mac which only as Office 98. I have seen that some of the animation is lost, which sort of throws off the timing of the recorded narration

Any help would be greatly appreciated

O.W. Petcof

I have saved
 
Dan,
After re-reading your email, I thought I might have a solution. I don't know or remember what version of Office you said you are using. I am using Office 2003 and it has a feature that you can use to "Package a Presentation for CD". What this means is that you can create a file out of your presentation that can be viewed on ANY computer, no matter if the computer actually has PowerPoint on it or not! All of your transitions and animations are preserved this way, I think. However, it does make the file bigger and a little more cumbersome.

The option is under File, then Package for CD. The only "problem" with this, though, is that you really have to be careful to make sure that you check the box in the dialogue box that pops us that says that you DO NOT want it to Autorun! I saved a presentation this way, but did not disable the autorun feature. I put it on a CD with some other files. It became annoying each time the CD was put into the computer, because the PowerPoint presentation would IMMEDIATELY start running! I think the autorun version would be good if you were making maybe a marketing CD and the presentation were all that you were putting on the CD.

Also, like the other gentleman told you, it is not wise to try to save PowerPoint presentations to floppy disks. If at all possible, once you should try to save it to a CD.

Thanks,
O.W. Petcoff
 
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