Powerpoint PC and Mac

[derajfast]

i know if i make a ppt on my mac (or a word doc with a picture) and you send it to a pc, or try to play it off a cd on a pc, the picture wont be displayed....i find this very very annoying....is there anything i can do (easily and hassle free) that will cure this problem??

 

[eva01]

actually it does show the pictures, it all depends on what filetype the picture is. I have had some show and then others not show .tiff didn't show on one of mine, but .jpeg does

 

[mkrishnan]

If you need to only see and not edit, pdf is the most reliable cross-platform format, I think. And you can make them easily from Office. And Acrobat has a full screen mode so that you can show the presentation directly from Acrobat.

Otherwise, as Eva said, there are file formats that are more reliable. I have this problem even transferring between PCs that have the same PC version of Office....

 

[derajfast]

i thought this happened with like any picture file.......if i copy a jpeg into a word doc, and then send that to my pc and open it in word, it says it cannot display the picture

 

[macbaseball]

I only have problems when I copy and paste the picture. Now I save the picture to the desktop, and then insert the picture from file, into the Powerpoint. Then, when the file is transferred, the pictures work fine.

 

[derajfast]

yeah i think you are right actaully......is there a way to make it work though without having to save it?

 

[macbaseball]

I don't think so. It's actually not that big of a pain though because of the function to option click. It probably seems like a pain, but once you get in the habit of saving them, you won't even think about it.