My presentations in pp 2003 will not play properly in pp 2007

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

mwright29 - 12 Aug 2007 21:00 GMT

I have just bought PP 2007 as an extra application to PP 2003. I cannot play
any of my previous presentations (approx. 50) in PP 2007 as they would in PP
2003. In particular the text anamations that I could use (such as unfold)
just do not work and also there is no way to make manuel slide transition
timing in PP 2007. I like all of the special effects for picture and text but
they are useless without the same flexability I had in PP 2003. I wanted to
upgrade all of my presentations with the special effects of PP 2007, but it
has become an exercise in futility.

Reply to this Message

Echo S - 12 Aug 2007 22:32 GMT

What makes you think you can't specify manual slide transitions in PPT 2007?
What are you trying to do?

What do you mean the text animations "just do not work"? That covers a lot
of ground -- could you be more specific about what's going wrong there?

Signature

Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

>I have just bought PP 2007 as an extra application to PP 2003. I cannot
>play
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> it
> has become an exercise in futility.

Reply to this Message

mwright29 - 13 Aug 2007 16:44 GMT

I just discovered how to reply to your post, so here is some more info. I
cannot get a smooth text animation when I add that to a new presentation in
pp 2007 after the first slide. I notice a rather uneven timing sequence with
a long time lag when it starts and then a lot of starts and stops. If and
when I ever get it to work the first time it will not play smoothly in the
presentation trial.

The same thing happens when I open a presentation from pp 2003. It will not
play past the second slide. It may or may not continue from that point. It
has to be a problem within pp 2007 itself to cause this. If that is so, then
nothing short of an upgrade to fix the problem will suffice. But how do I get
that to MS? Oh yes, I did find out how to do an automatic transition time
sequence.

Milton Wright

> What makes you think you can't specify manual slide transitions in PPT 2007?
> What are you trying to do?
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> > it
> > has become an exercise in futility.

Reply to this Message

Echo S - 13 Aug 2007 16:58 GMT

Glad to hear you found out how to do an automatic transition.

Unfortunately, what you're describing with regard to the text animations is
indeed an issue in PPT 2007 -- one that has no fix I'm aware of.

Definitely make sure you have the latest video graphics card drivers
installed, try changing hardware acceleration
(http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm) and make sure you have a local printer
driver installed (http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00605.htm). I know that last one
especially sounds weird, but PPT 2007 relies more heavily on the installed
printer drivers for its display than previous versions of PPT did.

However, Microsoft has said "The OfficeArt text caching mechanism is
"inefficient"
when by-letter or by-word animation effects are used...Using a sprite-less
animation effect (such as Appear) or simply not using by letter or by word
animation settings are the recommended workarounds."
(http://tinyurl.com/2k38kh). (Look for the post by John Langhans.)

I'm sorry, I wish I had a better answer for you.

Signature

Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

>I just discovered how to reply to your post, so here is some more info. I
> cannot get a smooth text animation when I add that to a new presentation
[quoted text clipped - 44 lines]
>> > it
>> > has become an exercise in futility.

Reply to this Message

mwright29 - 13 Aug 2007 19:46 GMT

Thank you for your answer. I think that my best solution to this problem in
PP 2007 is just to swallow my money loss-which was significant for this app.
and reinstall OFFICE 2003. It is a sad note that this problem was not
considered by MS when they put Office 2007 on the market. it seems to be
"money first, customer service last. I find that OPENOFFICE has a lot of
these features, and that is free. Food for thought.

> Glad to hear you found out how to do an automatic transition.
>
[quoted text clipped - 65 lines]
> >> > it
> >> > has become an exercise in futility.

Reply to this Message