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I use PowerPoint 2011 on my MacBook Pro and after installing Mountain Lion yesterday I am having slide transition problems. A lot of my PowerPoint transitions don't work properly (despite Microsoft's assurance that MS Office was ready for Mountain Lion!). The bottom of the slides disappear while many of the 3-D and rotational transitions are happening.
Very distracting. I installed the latest MS Office update. If you know of a fix or link to helpful articles, that would be much appreciated. I found the same problem with slides cutting off at the bottom and parts of prior slides showing up during transitions in PowerPoint - latest mac version with all updates.
The problem occurs on my new retina display macbook pro with Mountain Lion AS WELL AS my older imac running the same powerpoint version and ppt files. This discussion is also going on on the MS website (see below discussion): Needs to be fixed! Part of my living is giving such presentations and this problem is a real issue for me and a distraction for audiences. It is a Mountain Lion/PowerPoint problem and not just a retina display issue. I just had a discussion by phone with Apple and they are aware of this. They are saying it is up to Microsoft to update PowerPoint - meaning that no one knows what is going on and putting the burden on each other is not likely going to fix the problem. Steven Petak MD, JD.
Thanks for the response. In answer to your queries: 1. The file is saved from within Powerpoint 2011 as a PPTX file. This has never happened before we upgraded to Mountain Lion. The device is a brand new MacBook Pro 15' retina display, with Mountain Lion and Office 2011 revision 14.2.3. When I upload the file to Skydrive and run a slideshow from there the file works fine. I have noticed that I'm not the only person experiencing this problem.
See for example this description of exactly our problem from another user: Thanks, Andy. Reply.
Reply with quote. Report abuse Was this helpful? I noted the same problem with the bottom portion of some slides cutting off and being replaced transiently with the bottom section of an earlier slide with advancing the slide.
This is reproducible across several presentations and seems to only occur with the upgrade to Mountain Lion. I have a retina display 15 inch with Mountain Lion that was first noted to have the problem, but the same problem occurs on my older iMac running Mountain Lion as well.
I have the latest version of office for mac and no new updates are available. It was NOT present using the same presentations on earlier versions of OSX. I have video clips of the effect but it seems that others have noted the same problem. This appears to be a Mountain Lion/PowerPoint issue rather than a retina display problem only. Would be happy to provide more information if needed. I think the reason for low reporting is that the problelm only occurs if transitions are used (many people don't use transitions) AND the image must be at the lower edge of the slide. If the image is above the very bottom stripe - it does not seem to be a problem.
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In addition, the slide bottom stripe problem occurs several slides later. Is very transient, and therefore may not rise to the level of a repotable problem for many. Many people don't know how to find or use these reporting tools. You have to find the right google words to track down these discussions otherwise they are buried. Regardless, it is real and represents a defect.
I can simply not use transitions or not have my images go to the bottom of the slide - but it would be best if it is recognized as a problem and corrected. It could indicate deeper problems. Anyway - it does not look like it is a high priority item for Apple or Microsoft. There is some interest on the Microsoft answers forum as well but still not many have noted the problem: Steve Steven Petak MD, JD. Posted same at MS, it's a bug between Mountain Lion AND Powerpoint.
You guys should put your heads together. The whole reason using a MAC in the creative world is for a big part presenting. Using powerpoint means cross plarform compatibility.
Having the latest OS, should be about enjoyment not ignored bugs 🙂 - Hey, exact same problems MBP 16GB 15' Mountain Lion Retina. Bugs occurred straight a way, unboxed MBP installed Office, run updates. Problems at bottum with transitions using Powerpoint. I did notice when I used a VGA output screen at a customer, the bug was non present. When using my normal screens (full HD using HDMI port), it is.
Feels like something going wrong with image buffering, and addressing the wrong memory blocks when using transitions. Yeah I'm a technical noob so excuse the obvious flaws in my reasoning, but still. Definitely looks like some native Apple lowlevel graphic functions are called in Powerpoint Mac, that mis address the correct graphic memory when using multiple pages and graphics + Mountain Lion.
BTW same MBP using bootcamp/W7, has NO problem with the exact same PPTX. MBP with Lion NO problem with exact same PPTX. And as stated before, nobody knows to even exactly address the problem in Google. This was my second attempt to find a similar thread. To be honest I'm just happy not being the only one:). Please fix, regards Max.
I am having the same issues with transitions not rendering correctly in slide show mode. Don't want to reiterate what has already been posted, but just wanted to be sure and report I've seen this issue on my MBP running Mountain Lion.
It is also occuring on several other of my colleague's systems running Mountain Lion. I am NOT having the same issue on machines running Lion. I also connect my computers to external monitors/projectors and the issue does not go away on the secondary screens. Hopefully, if enough us continue to report the bug, Microsoft and/or Apple can provide a fix!! Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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