Thank you Lucy for responding. I had a funny feeling that was the case. It
sure is poor that MS didn't upgrade the Viewer along with everything else. I
recorded the the intro presentation and inserted the movie into a slide and
played just fine. One problem with that though; it would not repeat, it
would only go to a blank screen. I tried the kiosk setting and the continous
loop setting and both gave me the same result. Got any suggestions on that
one?

Again, thank you for responding.

David Frazier
"Lucy Thomson" wrote:

Hi David

This is a problem with the (very poorly named) 2007 viewer - it is really
the 2003 viewer with the compatibility pack. This means when you use the
viewer or package for cd with the viewer PowerPoint 'down saves' your file
to a 97-2003 format, which converts much of the new eye-candy (SmartArt, the
new cool font stuff, etc) to images and loses animation in the process. A
work around is to convert the new pretty stuff to a picture yourself (cut -
paste special - png/jpg) and add animations to the picture. Far, far, far
from perfect but a workaround at least.

Lucy

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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au


"DavidF" wrote in message
...
For starters, I am using PPT 2007 with XP as the OS.
I have a two part presentation (two separate files). The first is an
intro
loop that will play until I press an object linked to the second file. The
problem is the first file. This file is only 2 slides long and on the 1st
slide, has text that magnifies on entry, the text also has 3-D with shadow
settings and 3-D settings. The second slide has several entries that will
fade in and out, each having 3-D settings and shadows. When I play the
file
in Slide Show view, it works just great and links to the 2nd file with no
problem.

The problem occurs when I package it for CD. The animation on the first
slide doesn't work at all but the other graphics are okay. Only half of
the
entries on the second slide show the graphics (3-D and shadow) and the
other
half doesn't. But the animation works. Also, the link on both pages
work.
I went out and did the compatibility check and it gives me two issues on
about 12 different areas on the slides. They a 1. The shape and any
text
in it cannot be edited when uysing earlier viersions of PowerPOint ( Slide
1
and 2) 11 occurences; and number 2. Animations on uneditable shapes may
be
removed when using earlier versions of PowerPOint, (slide 1) 1 occurence.

I am saving the file as file type PowerPoint Presentation, which is also
the default setting when I check the PowerPoint Options/Save.

I wanted to see what I had to do to get it to view in the viewer and
essentially, the only thing I could do was put basic text down, no
animation,
no graphics.

One other thought, I have a new PC, a Dell Precision 490, with
quad-processors, tons of memory and disk space.

Would someone please help me. I have saved files many times before using
PPT
2007 with no problems and now all of a sudden I am getting this.

Thanks for any assistance anyone can give me.

David F.