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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2005Conference panic
Hi - Next month I'm presenting a PPT oral communication at a science meeting. Here is the remit from the organisers about PPT format... "Each session hall will be equipped with a PC running Windows XP using Power Point Version 2000. This is compatible with Power Point versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 97. Please do NOT bring any other presentation formats." Question: My PC (both at work and home) is running on version PPT 2003 (11.6361.6360) SP1, whatever that lot means. How can I ensure compataibilty so that when I'm up on that podium everything doesn't turn to mush with the formatting. PLEASE help - I'm not sure what to do. Cheers Can you not just do your presentation anyway, and commit it to CD with the PPT 2003 viewer included? In any event, keep it simple. Chris > Hi - Next month I'm presenting a PPT oral communication at a science > meeting. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > the > formatting. PLEASE help - I'm not sure what to do. Cheers Go to Tools/Options, and on the Edit tab, turn off the three new features -- new animations/transitions, passwording, and multiple masters. That effectively puts 2003 back in "2000 mode" so you won't be tempted to use any of the new features that may not display properly in PPT 2000. Then just create your presentation as you normally would. You'll also want to stick with Arial and Times New Roman font so you don't have font substitution issues on the other end. That can definitely mush with the formatting. :-) BTW, this part -- This is compatible with Power Point versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 97 -- is funny. I don't think there *are* versions 5, 6, and 7 between versions 4 and 97. I know there was version 4, then PPT 95, then PPT 97. PPT 95 might technically be PPT version 7, but I wonder what they mean by 5 and 6? -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com > Hi - Next month I'm presenting a PPT oral communication at a science meeting. > Here is the remit from the organisers about PPT format... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > so that when I'm up on that podium everything doesn't turn to mush with the > formatting. PLEASE help - I'm not sure what to do. Cheers > BTW, this part -- This is compatible with Power Point versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 > and 97 -- is funny. I don't think there *are* versions 5, 6, and 7 between > versions 4 and 97. I know there was version 4, then PPT 95, then PPT 97. PPT > 95 might technically be PPT version 7, but I wonder what they mean by 5 and > 6? Maybe it's there to head off speakers who're convinced that's the version they have. Since there IS no such creature, it's safe to promise compatibility with it. Sugar pill. Does no harm and might pacify some. ;-) In addition to what Echo said, PowerPoint 97 and 2003 use the same file format. When you save your file just save it as Presentation(*.PPT). Do not save it as PowerPoint 97-2003 and 95 (*.PPT). The latter is not needed and will unnecessarily bloat your file size.  SignatureSonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials http://www.soniacoleman.com > Hi - Next month I'm presenting a PPT oral communication at a science meeting. > Here is the remit from the organisers about PPT format... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > so that when I'm up on that podium everything doesn't turn to mush with the > formatting. PLEASE help - I'm not sure what to do. Cheers Hi Thanks to all of you - I will do as Sonia suggests and just save as Presentation format. I don't have any fancy animations etc as we were told not to include them. Chances are that everything will be just fine (BTW I also wondered about the "versions 3, 4, 5, 6and 7 !). Thanks again - you all been most helpful. Cheers, Karen Karen, I guess it's just the conference company trying to avoid any bad things happening on the day. Getting everyone to stick to the same version makes a lot of sense. Cheers TAJ Simmons microsoft powerpoint mvp awesome - powerpoint backgrounds, http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Cheers, Karen |
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