PC to Mac powerpoint chnages

[spnewman]

Please can anyone help, i work in a cancer esearch lab and we have both numerous Macs and PCs and often transfer presentations between them. However, when going from PC (XP or 2000) the Y axis of all graphs (either drawn in excel or Prism) in a powerpoint presentation get completely messed up, each character in the axis label is seen seperately, rotated 90o clockwise and thus making the axis label nonsense. Any attempt to correct this on a mac in ppt by ungrouping just causes further problems. Also, this happens no matter which method the graph was inserted/copied into ppt and grouping or pasting as a picture do not prevent this! When going from Mac to pc the y axis (excel drawn graphs) dissapears, this can retrieved by double clicikng on graph to open exel once on the pc, but again this can introduce random changes. The other problems with have are speical characters (i.e. ß) and also bullet point symbols change when ppt presentations are moved between Macs and PCs. Has anyone any idea what we can do to minimise these cross platform issues??? Thanks Simon

 

[BiPlatformal]

Hi Simon,
Did you try ...
PrintScreen, then opening a graphics program (Paint, etc) and inserting that graphic (Ctrl+V)
Crop around the image you want. Copy (Ctrl+C)
Open New (Don't save changes) Save As... (gif or jpg)
Insert this image into you PPT

This should work, since this is now an image and not an editable graph.

BiPlatformal

 

[GrayShades]

Sounds like you are embedding the XL file inside the PPT, i.e. copying and pasting. Unless the Mac has access to the same Excel file and displays it identically, it will cause problems.

What happens if in Excel you hold down the SHIFT key and then go to EDIT and COPY PICTURE, and paste that into PPT? That should transfer the same on the Mac.

Software: XL2002 on Win2K
Humanware: Older than dirt