Compatability Report and Pictures

[Guest]

Anyone know why the compatability report doesn't report the most useful thing
which is if a user has copied and pasted pictures into there Mac 2004
Powerpoint presentation from the web and Powerpoint saves them in some Mac
Quicktime format. When you try to open them on any PC regardless if
Quicktime is installed you always get the " The required Quick-Time
DeCompressor is missing" box instead of the picture itself.

Any ideas if this issue is going to be addressed as I often have to open PPT
files back on the mac export the pictures save them as JPG's and re-insert
them.

Matt

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Anyone know why the compatability report doesn't report the most useful thing
which is if a user has copied and pasted pictures into there Mac 2004
Powerpoint presentation from the web and Powerpoint saves them in some Mac
Quicktime format. When you try to open them on any PC regardless if
Quicktime is installed you always get the " The required Quick-Time
DeCompressor is missing" box instead of the picture itself.

Any ideas if this issue is going to be addressed as I often have to open PPT
files back on the mac export the pictures save them as JPG's and re-insert
them.

You may want to ask this in Public.Mac.Office.PowerPoint where they're mostly
Mac users rather than here where we're mostly the people Mac users are thinking
differently from. ;-)

Incidentally, it's not that PPT is saving the pictures in a Quicktime-compressed
format ... it's that they're already QT-compressed before PPT gets hold of them.