PowerPoint Mac & PC seamless integration

[will2000]

It's sales meeting time again, and I have to create more PowerPoint presentations with lots of numbers and graphs.

MS Office is supposed to have seamless integration, right? NOT!

One thing I have not been able to do is create slides containing Excel grids with the Mac version, that look identical on the PC version. It seems that the fonts are off, which makes a mess of the whole slide. As a result, I will probably do all the work on the PC side.

Does somebody know of a way to do this right on the Mac?

I still use a PB G4 with VPC. I need to email the PPTs ahead of the meeting, so the boss can organize all of them for the meeting. His PC will be the only one hooked up to the projector.

[C(-)ris]

How about making sure you use fonts that are available on both the Mac and PC. How is it a fault of Powerpoint that you used a font on one machine that isn't on the other?

[JoeM]

Do you have the latest PPT? Did you install the MS fonts on your Mac? (shudder)

My feeling is that in a PC office, it is always less of a hassle to create MS Office stuff on a PC, even though you can do it on a Mac to some degree.

[will2000]

I have Mac Office 2004 and installed all the MS fonts, just to be compatible. Even though I use those those fonts, the Excel grids are messed up when viewed on a PC because the fonts become too large and don't fit.

[JEBB]

You might try the OpenOffice presentation module called Impress.