I just got blindsided by Microsoft and thought I'd share a warning: The Pack and Go feature in Powerpoint allows you to compress a presentation along with Powerpoint Viewer software so that the presentation can be displayed on a PC that does not have Powerpoint installed.
The Viewer software (that comes with Office XP/Powerpoint 2002, at any rate) was apparently built in 2000, and fails to handle the newer features of Powerpoint itself. None of my custom animations worked properly in the Viewer version, and some of the graphics did not display at all. Nice going, Macroslop. The guy who is going to be presenting discovered the problem an hour ago, and his plane to Moscow leaves in four hours. Talk about a mad scramble to de-animate, re-do slides and change graphic file formats. Fortunately, I got it done in time, but it could have been a major embarrassment for our man in Moscow... s. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 "The smartest export Canada ever sent to the United States." Get Firefox! http://tinyurl.com/8q9c5