HI-
I'm a college professor and Pearson publishing has produced lecture powerpoint presentations to accompany the text I am using. However, when I download and open the pptx files, I get a warning regarding Active X controls (i.e. they exist and won't be saved when I save the file). Also, when I launch the slide show, there are animations and videos embedded (I'm guessing that's the ActiveX content) which fail to load. From what I've researched so far, this may stem from the fact that Active X is a proprietary microsoft code which only works with IE. If so, why would Pearson publishers do this as it presents such a problem to instructors who use macs?!! (Their technical support desk wasted about an hour of my time already this morning and I'm no better off than before.) Anyway, I've finally determined that bootcamp can be used as a workaround? Is there a better solution? And if I have to use bootcamp, can anyone give me some pointers (i.e. know nothing about it and it kind of gives me the heebie-geebies).
Thanks!
KJMiller P.S. I have a brand spanking new MBP running Mavericks as well as an older desktop running 10.6.8. Hoping to be able to use both for lecture writing. Thanks again!
I'm a college professor and Pearson publishing has produced lecture powerpoint presentations to accompany the text I am using. However, when I download and open the pptx files, I get a warning regarding Active X controls (i.e. they exist and won't be saved when I save the file). Also, when I launch the slide show, there are animations and videos embedded (I'm guessing that's the ActiveX content) which fail to load. From what I've researched so far, this may stem from the fact that Active X is a proprietary microsoft code which only works with IE. If so, why would Pearson publishers do this as it presents such a problem to instructors who use macs?!! (Their technical support desk wasted about an hour of my time already this morning and I'm no better off than before.) Anyway, I've finally determined that bootcamp can be used as a workaround? Is there a better solution? And if I have to use bootcamp, can anyone give me some pointers (i.e. know nothing about it and it kind of gives me the heebie-geebies).
Thanks!KJMiller P.S. I have a brand spanking new MBP running Mavericks as well as an older desktop running 10.6.8. Hoping to be able to use both for lecture writing. Thanks again!