Macintosh - Powerpoint Incompatibility???

[patrickdrd]

Hi everyone!
I sent a project written in Powerpoint (Version 2000, PC ?? Windows XP) to my professor
and he said that he cannot open it!
He told me that maybe the reason is the fact that he uses a Macintosh PC and there may
exist an incompatibility.
What should I do? He must open it!

Thanks in advance!
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[ObviousTroll]

Dumb questions:

1. Does your teacher have powerpoint for Mac?

2. Did you save the presentation as a PPT or a PPS file? Make sure you save it as a plain presentation, not as a canned slideshow.

 

[patrickdrd]

1. He told me that he has the latest version of Powerpoint!

2. I saved and sent it as a pps file (not sound or anything,
many images and using Arial font).

 

[jmgalvin]

Save as .ppt adn see what happens. We have no problems with .ppt.

 

[patrickdrd]

Could you be more specific jmgalvin?

What do you mean by "We have no problems with .ppt"?

Is there any difference between ppt and pps in Macintosh?

 

[ObviousTroll]

Patrick,

PPS files are self-contained slide shows that can be run on a Windows machine that does not have Powerpoint installed. As such, it may have things embedded in it, like fonts, that aren't in the correct format for Mac. In other words, sometimes Macs can read PPS files and sometimes they can't.

There's also the possibility that your instructor just doesn't have power point installed, or has made some other error.

Two ideas:

1. Save as a PPT and ask if he can open that.
2. Use the "Save as Web Page" feature. This will create an entire folder containing web pages of your slides. Give him the entire folder and tell him to open it with Internet Explorer.