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Avoid a Windows image error in PowerPoint presentations
Authored by: ganmac on Jun 13, '07 03:54:33PM

For me, this problem occurs when I am inserting an image with cut/paste. If I use the Import menu, the Windows users have no problems seeing the images.

Probably the issue has to do with the way OS X is working with images from the Clipboard. Maybe they are being rendered by Quick time?



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Avoid a Windows image error in PowerPoint presentations
Authored by: Jai Gill on Jun 14, '07 03:50:05AM

I agree with your post. In my experience, cut & paste leads to problems where as inserting a graphic from a file does not.

Something else I've noticed, the Mac version of PowerPoint has more slide build and transition features. One I use a lot on the Mac is the ability to apply an effect on 'exiting' a slide. The WinDOS version can't cope with this and I end up having to create multiple slides and remove objects the hard way...

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JG



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Avoid a Windows image error in PowerPoint presentations
Authored by: thorsten.b on Jun 14, '07 04:10:43AM

From my experience its definitely a cut and paste problem. So usually I drag the pictures onto the slide (from iphoto). However, I just tested it again, when I drag them onto that placeholder box in the template, the picture file is converted to a pict. file which can't be seen on windows.

So, I ende up using keynote and exporting to a powerpoint file (Where I sometimes get editable files and sometimes non-editable power point files, no clue why).

t.



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Avoid a Windows image error in PowerPoint presentations
Authored by: jpruden on Jun 14, '07 01:17:03PM

Thorsten...

You're correct... but the real solution is to use Insert> Picture> From File...> and then choose the file. Works 100% of the time.

smiles,
Jamie



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