Comments on: PowerPoint 2010 Review

By: Joy Williams

Joy Williams — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:14:03 +0000

Hi
Could you also email me the solution as its driving me nuts!!

I can’t find anything on the web a way to even ‘take off dropshadow’ on previous powerpoint versions.

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:07:15 +0000

For those interested, the solution to the drop shadow compatibility problem is now up as a separate post.

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:27:53 +0000

Hi Keith, I’ve sent the solution over to you – although I’m afraid that there’s no quick fix! I hope this solves the issue for you, but if you are still experiencing problems, please do not hesitate to get back in touch.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:33:52 +0000

Hi Ray, could you send me the solution to the drop shadow problem as well? I have dozens of PowerPoint 2007 presentation that I would like to use in PPT 2010 but it would take days to remove all the drop shadows. Thanks so much.

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:05:23 +0000

Hi Ray, I’ll email you the solution now. It seems that these issues are quite common in PowerPoint – please do not hesitate to get in touch if you discover any more! We’re working on producing some content to help users resolve these difficulties.

By: Ray Kay

Ray Kay — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:16:30 +0000

Could you also e-mail me the solution to the drop shadow issue that occurs when files originate in PowerPoint 2003 and are played back in 2010? I would love to not use 2003, but I am handed files done by others.

Thanks for your help.

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:26:05 +0000

Hi Karen, I’m afraid I do not have a solution to the Keynote problem as yet – there are many compatability issues between it and PowerPoint. I’ll get back to you when I receive a definite answer. However, one of our design team has solved the drop shadow issues for you. The explanation is too long for a comment, so I’ll email you the answer now. But as a general rule, it is best to avoid using earlier versions of a PowerPoint file in later versions of PowerPoint, as it produces no end of issues!

By: Karen D.

Karen D. — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:38:19 +0000

Any suggestions for resolving the drop shadow issues with opening a presentation created in a previous version of Powerpoint. When you animate the text such as bullets, the drop shadow is on the frame before the text animates onto the frame. Also, if you export a Keynote presentation as a Powerpoint and then open it and try to edit and animate the text/images, the program crashes. Any ideas/suggestions would be helpful!

Thank you.

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:27:54 +0000

The second part of the review can be found here - hope that you find it useful!

By: R.Hilbers

R.Hilbers — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:08:14 +0000

Where can I find part II of this review?

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:26:33 +0000

Hi Richard – Do you mean Office 2010 or PowerPoint in particular? The issue you mentioned might be the case with Outlook, but it wouldn’t affect PowerPoint.

By: Richard Ackermann

Richard Ackermann — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:31:09 +0000

You ought to put up notice of what programs are not going to work with 2010 such as salesforce.