Require urgent help with powerpoint presentation!!

[rikadik]

Hello everyone.

I have created a slideshow for my Dad using Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 11.0 and although it is nothing special and has nothing advanced in it, we've spent quite a lot of time getting it to look just right.

Unfortunately, when I put it on his work laptop using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 (9.0.2716), it looks like crap. The main problem is absence of transparency effects. Other problems are a strange box appearing in odd places.

I have a few possible solutions in mind:

1. Update his version of PowerPoint - would work but not necessarily a solution as the computer he does the presentation off may well just have PowerPoint 2000 also!

1. Redo the presentation on his work Laptop - would work but will undo hours of work and look poo.

1. Convert pretty slides to images and place into older PowerPoint slideshow - would definitely work and this is the best solution... BUT all the tools that do this seem to cost a lot and is not feaseable UNLESS someone on here can offer to do it!

Can anyone help or offer any better suggestions?! It'd be much appreciated!

 

[rikadik]

Just noticed, other problems including not displaying a TIFF (but no idea how that got in there anyway, will be converting to JPEG) and not rotating a photo which should be rotated.

 

[TheStu]

If you havent deleted it, you should be able to open up that powerpoint in Keynote. A 30 day trial for iWork comes with new macs, so unless you have already used it...

Once you open it up in keynote, and confirm that it imported correctly, you can then export it as any number of things. Quicktime, PowerPoint, PDF, PNGs, a Flash movie, or HTML. the new Keynote in iWork 08 even supports exporting to ipods :0

 

[rikadik]

Excellent thank-you! I'll download the iWork trial (would like to anyway) and export to PNGs then place into a very basic PowerPoint file, that should be nice and robust.

Many thanks for the help.

 

[AsianriceX]

Save to PDF and present in full screen mode?