PowerPoint 2003 with PowerPoint 2007?

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

I do not have access at the moment to PowerPoint 2007 but wonder
whether presentations written using PowerPoint 2003 will run OK with
the new version of PowerPoint?

In particular presentations which use macros? (mostly for drop down
menus)

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello,

I do not have access at the moment to PowerPoint 2007 but wonder
whether presentations written using PowerPoint 2003 will run OK with
the new version of PowerPoint?

In particular presentations which use macros? (mostly for drop down
menus)

If your macros work with PPT's own menu bar, 2007's very different. There IS
no menu bar.

Beyond that, it's hard to say what'll work and what won't w/o seeing example
code.

You may want to download the free demo and try your presentations in it.
I'd be inclined to install it on a spare PC or on a virtual machine rather than
on your main computer.

 

[Geoff Cox]

If your macros work with PPT's own menu bar, 2007's very different. There IS
no menu bar.

Beyond that, it's hard to say what'll work and what won't w/o seeing example
code.

You may want to download the free demo and try your presentations in it.
I'd be inclined to install it on a spare PC or on a virtual machine rather than
on your main computer.

Thanks Steve - will try the virtual machine software.

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks Steve - will try the virtual machine software.

Good plan, sir. I did a little impromptu tutorial session on using Virtual PC and
Office 2007 at PPTLive last year and wrote up a summary here:

Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00819.htm

 

[Geoff Cox]

Good plan, sir. I did a little impromptu tutorial session on using Virtual PC and
Office 2007 at PPTLive last year and wrote up a summary here:

Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00819.htm

'will take a look at that - have installed Vista and Powerpoint 2007
under the virtual machine software - the presentations work OK but
Vista is a bit slow with 700MB of RAM! My PC has 1GB RAM so must
upgrade that to the 4GB figure.

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

'will take a look at that - have installed Vista and Powerpoint 2007
under the virtual machine software - the presentations work OK but
Vista is a bit slow with 700MB of RAM! My PC has 1GB RAM so must
upgrade that to the 4GB figure.

Vista's recommended system specs include a gigabyte of RAM, so slow performance in
700mb doesn't surprise me at all. If you're running it under a WinXP host PC, check
the specs before spending too much on a 4gb upgrade. If I remember right, XP only
supports 3gb of RAM. And I don't have to question my memory on this one: never
thought I'd see "only" and "3 gb of RAM" in the same sentence, at least not w/o a
trace of irony. Must remember to send a thankyou note to Bill for that, at least. <g>