Would working in Powerpoint on a Mac using PCemulation software eliminate the cross platformissues?

[marye]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC Is there anyone out there who has tried this?

I was wondering if purchasing one of the software packages (Parallel or Fusion) and running the 2007 PC version of PowerPoint on my Mac would eliminate the cross platform issues I am having? It might also make it easier to give "HOW TO" instructions to the client. Some of the clients office is now using Microsoft 2007.

Any recommendations?

Thanks so much!

 

[David Marcovitz]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC Is
there anyone out there who has tried this?

I was wondering if purchasing one of the software packages (Parallel or
Fusion) and running the 2007 PC version of PowerPoint on my Mac would
eliminate the cross platform issues I am having? It might also make it easier
to give "HOW TO" instructions to the client. Some of the clients office is now
using Microsoft 2007.

Any recommendations?

Thanks so much!

I currently have 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008 on my Mac (2003 and 2007 run in
Parallels). For the PC versions, they run just like they do on a PC so the
answer to your question is yes, this would eliminate cross-platform issues.
This summer, I was teaching a class that used PowerPoint extensively, and my
students had 2003, 2004, and 2007 (each student had a different version). It
was a little mind-numbing trying to switch among all the versions to show
the students how to do different things (as well as deal with the different
bugs that present themselves when using VBA in different versions of
PowerPoint).

--David
--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

On 12/9/09 5:15 PM, in article (e-mail address removed)2ac0,

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor:
Power PC Is there anyone out there who has tried this?

I was wondering if purchasing one of the software packages (Parallel
or Fusion) and running the 2007 PC version of PowerPoint on my Mac
would eliminate the cross platform issues I am having? It might also
make it easier to give "HOW TO" instructions to the client. Some of
the clients office is now using Microsoft 2007.

Any recommendations?

Thanks so much!


I currently have 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008 on my Mac (2003 and 2007 run
in Parallels). For the PC versions, they run just like they do on a PC
so the answer to your question is yes, this would eliminate
cross-platform issues. This summer, I was teaching a class that used
PowerPoint extensively, and my students had 2003, 2004, and 2007 (each
student had a different version). It was a little mind-numbing trying to
switch among all the versions to show the students how to do different
things (as well as deal with the different bugs that present themselves
when using VBA in different versions of PowerPoint).

--David
--
David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

Not to mention that Office 2010 free beta is now available for Windows
users, and the paid for version comes out in June. The next Mac version
is late 2010. Add two more versions to support!

-Jim

 

[marye]

Thank you so very much to both David M. Marcovitz and Jim Gordon for taking the time to answer questions so quickly! It is truly wonderful to have such a valuable resource available.

Thanks again.
Mary