Graphic imported into PowerPoint from MS Visio

[Lynton Jones]

I have prepared a PowerPoint presentation in MS Office v.X. (I am
running Mac OS X 10.3). A colleague running a Windows version of
PowerPoint created a PP slide for me by importing a graphic into it
from MS Visio. This slide opened fine in the Windows version of
PowerPoint. When I tried to open it in MS Office v.X PowerPoint the
whole program crashed. I then sent the MS Office v.X presentation to
the Windows computer & had the new slide (with the imported MS Visio
graphic) dropped into the presentation & sent back to me. The revised
presentation opened fine on my Mac, but when I got to the slide with
the imported graphic, the whole program crashed again.

Anyone got any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Tahnks in advance.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Have your colleague insert the Visio graphic, ungroup it, then regroup it.
That converts the graphic from OLEwhateverItMightBe to PowerPoint shapes,
which will be a lot easier for Mac PPT to digest, if you'll forgive the
excessively techno-anthropomorphic answer. <g>

 

[Lynton Jones]

Thanks a lot for the advice. This worked (almost) perfectly - I lost a
few minor parts of the graphic, but nothing serious.