Power Point 2007 not playing well with older siblings!!

[Guest]

2 Things:
1.I create presentations for our firm. We have about 8 or 9 other machines
that our presenters use for speaking. I upgraded to Office 2007 and all other
machines are 2003 and 2002 Power Point. Dilemna: I found out that Smart
Art(which is very nice) is not compatible in older versions. In saving "back"
it changes the Smart art into a graphic. I used a series of bullet points in
Smart Art to create a list of 3 items with subpoints under each bullet.I then
set animations so that the bullets and sub-bullets appeared seperatly. Saved
it as an 97-03 version and opened on a presenters laptop. The whole page
appears with the entire text box as a graphic and no animation. It doesn't
save each section as a graphic which would be ideal for animations.

2. Additionally, Why doesn't Power Point Viewer 2007 support smart art
animation that is standard with Office 2007. Is it Microsofts way of forcing
everyone to purchase a full release version of Office.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hello,

Unfortunately your correct about smart art turning into graphics in previous
versions. Also, because it as a graphic it cannot be on ungrouped into
individual objects.

I haven't tested the viewer but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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PowerPoint version
Windows version
Are you using VBA?
Anything else relevant?

 

[Echo S]

The 2007 Viewer is really just the latest and greatest version of the 2003
Viewer with the compatibility pack added so it can open PPTX/PPSX files. So
yeah, I'd expect it to behave that way.