I've created a presentation with custom animations, text, sound, graphics etc. The slides won't transition automatically with the timings I've applied. In fact they won't transition at all - even with a mouse click.
Please help, my assignment is due the day after tomorrow. 😟
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010)
You'll need to consult the "Powerpoint for Mac" Forum on Microsoft's website. It is their product, not Apple's, so they support it.
Thanks, I'm just changing over to Mac from PC so I thought maybe other Mac users had had similar problems, wasn't sure who to ask. I've actually just solved the problem myself, the sound file I inserted on the first slide was longer than the transition I applied, so I inserted another blank slide first and attached the sound file to that. All good now.
Cheers, I'll remember next time to go to a Microsoft forum.
Glad you got it sorted. Here's the link to the Office:Mac forums for any future MS issues:
Office for Mac forums
Those forums are very helpful.
But so are the Apple forums. Please understand that no one is trying to blow you off, but in the 12+ years I've been haunting these forums, I've not encountered a lot of MS Office users. Must be that MS v. Apple thing! The advice to try the MS forums is intended to get you help faster than you can here for MS products.
I am a heavy Office:Mac user but have not run into the problem you encountered and solved. The people for whom I had to set up PP presentations always requested "no sound files." Rather boring types, actually--glad I'm retired! So I would not have been much help either for that particular issue.
When it's Mac hardware or Apps with which you have questions, this is the place to come, and I hope to see you here again.
Allan
Many thanks, I don't feel like anyone's tried to 'blow me off', at least I know these forums work - I was delighted to get such a quick response. It's helpful to know where to go for future help - the whole is it a Mac problem or Microsoft problem didn't really occur to me.
I've become very proficient in MS Office on Windows PC over the years but am struggling on my iMac. The creative sound and action stuff is my big passion so it's all been a learning curve.
I'll definitely use these forums again.
Thanks for your encouragement.
I've become very proficient in MS Office on Windows PC over the years but am struggling on my iMac.
I think you'll be back up to speed pretty soon. I started with Word 3 for Mac (long before MS created the "Office" moniker for the bundled product). When I was working, I had both Mac and Win computers in my engineering office. Although my primary tools as a technical editor were the Macs, I relied on MS Access on the PC for working with the company's engineering databases, so did not have to worry much with any other Office apps on the PC.
When I retired, I started volunteering at a local museum and, because I could spell "computer" correctly 80% of the time, was bestowed the lofty title of "Chief Computer Basher." Unfortunately, the museum is all Windows! To add to the problem, they had Office 2010 for PC on their computers. I'm still struggling with finding stuff on Office's recent "ribbon" system. It seems they came up with a snazzy-looking interface without bothering to consider that someone actually had to use it!
After three years of Office 2010, I'm finally managing to find most of what I need in the tools tied to that interface. I'm still on Office:Mac 2008 at home because it maintains the older and more comfortable interface. If you have Office 2011 on you Mac, poke around and see if they is a way to restore the older style menus if you "grew up" on Office:PC 2007. I understand that option may be hiding there someplace. That should give you better parity between versions. It might be a question to ask in the MS forums.
Another thing that helps is to find as many keyboard shortcuts as you can in the Office Apps. They are often undocumented but you can find them for each Office:Mac app by seeing if a shortcut is shown in a pull-down menu or, in Word and Excel, by doing View > Customize Toolbars and Menus and clicking the "Keyboard" button at the bottom of the Customize window. That will reveal any shortcuts assigned by default and allow you to customize some of your own.
Power Point slides won't transition
