OT: Powerpoint Gotcha

[Stuart Rogers]

I just got blindsided by Microsoft and thought I'd share a warning:

The Pack and Go feature in Powerpoint allows you to compress a 
presentation along with Powerpoint Viewer software so that the 
presentation can be displayed on a PC that does not have Powerpoint 
installed.

The Viewer software (that comes with Office XP/Powerpoint 2002, at any 
rate) was apparently built in 2000, and fails to handle the newer 
features of Powerpoint itself. None of my custom animations worked 
properly in the Viewer version, and some of the graphics did not display 
at all.

Nice going, Macroslop. The guy who is going to be presenting discovered 
the problem an hour ago, and his plane to Moscow leaves in four hours. 
Talk about a mad scramble to de-animate, re-do slides and change graphic 
file formats. Fortunately, I got it done in time, but it could have been 
a major embarrassment for our man in Moscow...

s.

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Stuart Rogers
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Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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