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Old May 11th, 2005, 02:36 PM
amurray
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Thank you for the information. At least I know now to anticipate such issues
in the future. However, saving the presentation as a pps did not prevent the
transition problems, so I am going to try the other suggestions posted. The
visio charts were perfect once I saved as a jpg file, so you were right on
the mark.

Thanks again.

"JBarbato" wrote:

Burning the presentation to a CD should not affect the file. Presenting on a
computer with a different version of PowerPoint can definitely affect slide
transitions and animation.
Try saving the file as a PowerPoint Show by choosing "PowerPoint Show
(*.pps)" on the "Save as type" line in your "Save As" window. This feature is
designed to allow you to show a PowerPoint file as a show even on computers
that don't have PowerPoint software loaded on them, so my guess is that could
solve your problem for computers with older versions of PowerPoint as well.
As far as your Visio graphic blowing up, if showing the file as a show
doesn't prevent that, try convering your Visio file to a jpg file before
inserting it, or in a pinch, hit your "Print Screen" button on your keyboard
while you have the Visio file open and on your screen, then paste that image
into the PowerPoint slide simply by choosing "Paste" from your "edit" menu.
You will have to crop the image after pasting it to eliminate the extraneous
screen graphics though.

"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. 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?