I thought I would start a fresh thread on this, because the issue is important to me. If I create a powerpoint presentation on a mac, can I show it on a pc? In another thread, one person said no, the other yes.....
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I assume you're talking about Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The last time I made a PowerPoint on a PC, it worked on a Mac. I would expect it to work vice versa. I'm not 100% sure though.
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Yes it works fine.
It's just like opening word docs between os x and xp. -
Yes, you can open Powerpoint files on Mac OS X and Windows.
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it will open. but sometimes i find that some slide themes do not carry over.
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Just be sure you have all the same fonts on both computers, or anything it can't find will revert to the default font for that computer and be ugly.
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sometimes there are issues with images too - going from mac to PC and PC to mac. it's inconsistent and I never notice until I am in the middle of a presentation, so I have yet to figure out why it happens, or how to fix it.
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Last time I tried it 3 out of 30 slides had mising image - the presentation in PP was made on Mac and transferred onto PC for the show. The lost images had a text message on the slide where the image should have been which stated something to the effect of that "TIFF image is not transferble and Quicktime is needed to view"
Oddly enough images transferred OK on the other 27 slides but they were made using jpeg images - lesson is YES they do transfer over from Mac to PC but you need to check just i case (not 10 mins before your presentation / talk !)
Maybe best way is to do presentation in Keynote and use the Mac to do talk from. However some big conferernces don't allow your own PC or Mac and you have to load your presentation onto their PC
Powerpoint Redux
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by diver110, Apr 30, 2007.