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Old May 11th, 2005, 01:52 AM
Steve Rindsberg
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In article , Amurray wrote:
A Powerpoint presentation that included slide transition formatting and
animation worked perfectly on several of our computers; however, when the
presentation was presented at the client's office, the transition and
animation did not function properly.


Transitions/animations changed a lot between PPT 2000 and 2002/2003. You're
presentation probably uses new features that aren't supported in PPT 2000.

Supplying an AutoRun CD with the new PPT2003 viewer might solve some of these
problems.

This has some links to more info about that:
Make an AutoRun CD
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00037.htm

As far as the visio file's concerned, it's *very* unlikely that burning the PPT
file to CD had anything to do with the problem. It might be a video driver
problem at their end or any of several other things.

Unless you need to be able to edit the inserted objects on site, it's a very
good practice to ungroup then regroup them (working on a copy of your
presentation, of course!) That converts them into Office drawing objects -
these tend to have fewer cross-platform, cross-version problems than copy/pasted
objects.


In addition, a Visio file was inserted
into a slide as an object, but when viewed at the client's office, portions
of the graphic were not placed accordingly. The presentation was burned to a
CD and used in the client's computer. We tested the CD on one of our laptops
and had no problems. Could the version of Powerpoint affect the formatting?
For example, we use Powerpoint 2003, but if the presentation was opened using
an older version of Powerpoint, could that somehow change the formatting?
Or, can burning the presentation to a CD somehow affect it? Any other
suggestions?


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