”PowerPoint for Mac
Idiosyncrasies"
Computer Talk
23 May 2013
Hal Hart
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Presentation Outline
1. PowerPoint 2008 vs PowerPoint 2011 Look-And-Feel
— Similarities /Differences
2. Copying Graphics from Webpages & Pasting to a
Chart
3. Animating Bullets of Text
4. Animating a Mixture of Pictures & Text
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PPT2008 vs PPT2011 Animations
5. Adding/Embedding a Video Clip
6. Packaging a Presentation to be Sure Videos Are
Included (for transporting file on a memory stick to
another computer)
7. Packaging a Presentation to Run without PowerPoint
8. What do YOU want to do?
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PPT 2008 vs PPT 2011
Look-And-Feel: 2008
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PPT 2008 vs PPT 2011
Look-And-Feel: 2011
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Copying Graphics from Webpages &
Pasting to a Chart (BEFORE)
• Graphic from Omnilore
• Officers Webpage
• Graphic from
Geocaching
homepage
• Background image from
Geocaching homepage
• Header banner image from Geocaching homepage
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Control-Click to COPY IMAGE; Paste Special
View Background Image; then Copy-Paste
Or SAVE IMAGE AS
Then you can CROP it with simple graphics tools (e.g., Preview)
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Copying Graphics from Webpages &
Pasting to a Chart (AFTER)
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Control-Click to COPY IMAGE; Paste Special
View Background Image; then Copy-Paste
Or SAVE IMAGE AS
Then you can CROP it with simple graphics tools
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Animating Bullets of Text
“Uploading Your New Webpage to the Web:
Typical Upload Instructions”
Use FileZilla (or another FTP utility) to upload webpage
files: the HTML file generated by Composer, plus any graphics
files, subpages, and linked/downloadable PDF/WORD/PPT/etc. files
See http://omnilore.org/members/SDG5.htm#FTP
1. Connect as per instructions provided by server-space provider
2. Select directory on your computer (“Local Site”) with webpage
files & sub-directories
3. Select Destination (Target) directory (“Remote Site”) as per
instructions (if not already visible)
4. Perform upload(s) by double clicking on files on Local Site, or
dragging icons from Local Site to Remote Site
5. Check out uploaded webpage(s) again (“Testing”)
Brag on it to your classmates/friends/family ...
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Animating A Mixture of Pictures & Text
“Getting to Know the Audience”
The Internet
moves data &
commands
between
anyone’s
computer &
web servers.
A web browser is an app stored on
your computer. It starts by
requesting a webpage by giving its
location (url) in the cloud.
It then
The browser
renders then
visual/graphical
renders
webpage
visual/graphical
images interpreting
webpage images
the
all-text
interpreting
description
the all-text
files.
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Low-level all-text
descriptions (HTML) of
webpages & graphics
files reside on servers.
Also, web apps,
databases …
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Animations
PPT 2008 vs PPT 2011
PowerPoint
2008
PowerPoint 2011
Animations ribbon
Transitions ribbon
Motion
Path
options
(not in
PPT2008?)
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Adding/Embedding a Video Clip
PowerPoint 2008
• INSERT menu –> Movie… –> navigate to mp4 file –> select –> Choose
• Or, if visible, click “Insert Movie – one of 6 Insert icons showing on New
Slides from the default template Slide Master)
PowerPoint 2011
• INSERT menu –> Movie… –> Movie from File… –> navigate to mp4 file
–> select –> Insert
or, click “Insert Movie from File” icon as above
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Packaging a Presentation to be Sure
Videos Are Included
(for transporting file on a memory stick to another computer)
Conventional Wisdom:
• Place video and/or music files in the same folder as the .ppt
(or .pptx) file.
• Copy that folder to memory stick
• Copy folder to another computer with PowerPoint installed,
open .ppt(x) file, view in SlideShow mode and click on the
video frame when chart with video is reached.
Better (?)
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Do video/music Insertions as above.
Save file as .pptx
Save As again as PowerPoint Show (.pssx)
Clicking on the .pssx file opens it directly in SlideShow mode
Music/videos are embedded such that they play even if not
present
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Packaging a Presentation to Run on a
Computer Without PowerPoint Installed
?
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Caveats
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Animations set up in one version of PowerPoint often do not work exactly as
intended in another version (PPT-for-MAC 2011 vs 2008 or earlier, or Mac vs
Windows)
Ditto for music/video files for Mac PPT 2008 vs Mac PPT 2011. Particularly, it
may be the case the in PPT 2011, in SlideShow mode, the player frame has
standard controller options (start/stop, backup, volume, full-screen) that are not
present when playing in PPT 2008, where start/stop is by clicking the player
frame and other controller options do not seem available.
Don’t trust PowerPoint Show (.pss or .pssx) to work identically across versions.
While files saved from PPT 2011 seem to open OK on a computer with PPT
2008, some advanced features may not work as intended (e.g., Flow Motion animations).
Your presenter thinks maybe the PC-vs-Mac differences in PowerPoint are
over-stated, and what users are instead observing is:
• differences between versions of Office (2008 vs 2001 in Mac’s case, 2007 vs
2010 in PC’s case) on the same platform
• Failure to realize PPT-Windows 2010 is very much like PPT-Mac 2011, much
more than either is like PPT-Mac 2008 (which is more similar to PPTWindows 2007 than to PPT-Mac 2011) .
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