PowerPoint for Mac (2011) Slide Transition Problems After Installing Mountain Lion

I'll stand up to be counted as well, and I have posted on the MS site, too. I upgraded to Mountain Lion last week, and led a full-day training with ppts last Friday. I experienced exactly the same thing that every other post has mentioned, and nothing seems to fix it. It's very distracting, and when you've put hours into creating a visually compelling presentation, only to have the bottom of every slide show a 'ghost' from previous slides...well, it's pretty disappointing. The MS posting site kept discussing possible linkages to Google Chrome use, but that is not the situation in my case--I use Safari. I can't believe that MS and Apple are silent on this one. Too many people use ppt and expect to deliver a high quality presentation for this to be overlooked. What are the recommended actions for reporting this?

Same problem. New 15 rMBP (mountain lion). Installed MSO2011. Used PowerPoint for the first time yesterday for a big presentation. Applied basic fade transition. Got slight image fragments from previous slides at the bottom of the screen during almost every slide change. The MS site is very frustrating to read on this subject. Thanks to all of you who have struggled through it. Waiting for fix. Chose "no transition" just to get through my presentation. Sorry for the poor writing (iPhone).

Frustrating not to have any response by Microsoft and/or Apple on this one.

I have stopped using transitions for my talks with PowerPoint. Keynote does NOT have this problem and is an alternative. Lion works fine with PowerPoint - so it is a Mountain Lion - PowerPoint issue. I reported it using the PowerPoint feedback option.... any other ideas?

The microsoft discussion has a bit more activity and is the same topic with many of the same people represented here. Some interesting data there on the issue but no solutions other than not to use transitions.... or use Keynote.... or have slides that do not have graphics/text near the bottom... the link is:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macpowerpoint/powerpo int-2011-transitions-on-mountain-lion/41892328-3d27-418b-8679-8604282ac8e6

Steve

Steven Petak MD, JD

Add me to the list of people experiencing this.

The weirdest thing for me -- that tells me it isn't a user error - is that it doesn't matter the screen - it always starts flipping out after the third slide using a transition.

If I start the presentation on slide 4 - it starts happening on slide 7. Start it on slide 1 - it happens on 4.

I hate this. No wonder I use Keynote absolutely whenever possible.

Hey Question to those of you with this same problem... does anyone know -- if I send this file to my client who works on a PC - will they continue to have the problem. Or, does it magically go away since the file is now on a PC?

Thanks!

Just gave a major talk using PowerPoint produced on my macbook pro (retina) with the problem and ran it on a PC at the conference using LCD projector and no problems on the PC computer screen run through or on the LCD. This is a presentation that does have the problem on my both my macs (imac and macbook pro) running ML and current office for mac 2011 with updates on the screen and on LCD projector.

Bottom line: So - not a problem if you have a problem presentation and run on a PC using current PC version of office.

Steve

My company is having this same issue across multiple models of MacBook Pros after recently upgrading to OSX10.8.

This is extremely frustrating and basically makes PPT 2011 useless for us. This definately seems like an Apple bug, not a PPT, since PPT has worked fine for a long time. You have to wonder if Apple's dragging their feet on a fix to encourage people to go to Keynote.

Open ppt

Close all individual files individually

Close ppt

Open ppt ... or the file u want ... al fine

Incompatibiity between MS PPT what I keep in mind in terms of settings and fricking Apple reopen open documents etc. blahblah settings.

Non standard guys all of them, suckers

I tried this fix ptroxler and at first, it seemed to make a difference, but alas.... no. Still there. I'm beyond mad about this. This is occurring on the machine that is five days old. Unacceptable. This is my livelihood. The Apple store is not going to be happy to see me later this week. My slightly older MBP doesn't have the problem (thankfully), otherwise I would probably be fired. My client doesn't care or know that this isn;t my fault. they have never seen it before. I will be returning MBP's until I find one that works properly.

Can you clarify the process please?

I cannot comment on any individual set up. It's most probably not an issue of particluar hardware, but of software configuration.

My setup is OS 10.7.5 and MS Office 14.2.5

I also have the same problem with PowerPoint and OS 10.8.2. The problem has been discussed in detail on the Microsoft Community page here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macpowerpoint/powerpo int-2011-transitions-on-mountain-lion/41892328-3d27-418b-8679-8604282ac8e6

So far they are thinking it is a problem with Apple and the NVIDEA graphic cards.

Please help us Apple!

(posted in microsoft forum also)

Already replied plenty in this forum but here is an update.

Just got a brand new 27 inch iMAC i7 32 GB NVIDEA GeForce GTX 680 MX 2048 MB.

Installed office - latest version with updates done right from the start. Same problem with transitions.

Steve

Same problem here -- new MBPR running 10.8.2 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB. Powerpoint transitions don't look right in the lower quarter of the display, and there seems to be some ghosting in the lower quarter of the slides when simply viewing in presentation mode. (The latter is only visible on slides with a solid dark background.) Doesn't happen on any of my other systems. A colleague of mine is seeing the exact same problem on his system (same config).

I doubt this is a hardware specific problem, since the same thing is happening on my early 2008 iMac with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512 MB video card.

I don't have a Windows box to test the presentation on, but running the same presentation in Powerpoint 2008 on a Mac running 10.6 resolves the transtition artifacts. However all of the timings, especially the dissolve lengths between slides, are off in PP08, so all my careful work to make sure visuals and soundtrack are in sync is lost.

Bringing it ito Keynote is eay, though some of the visual effects