My wife is teaching a course and she is using powerpoint for her lectures. She is using Powerpoint 2004 to make her presentations, but she has to burn them to CD and run them on a PC at the university. I'm not sure what version of PP they have. She had some trouble last week with some of the graphics not showing up (she can't remember what the error was). I remember PP having issues with including graphics and movies when presentations are saved, but I can't seem to figure it out. It's been a long time since I've used PP (I've converted to Keynote), but I always see people who forget to put their movies on their CDs, so they aren't included in the presentations.
I tried looking through the help files and came across the PP Package format which says it bundles all the graphics files and movie files into a folder. I decided to make some test files to try to figure things out, but I'm stuck. I have made lots of test presentations with various graphics and movies copied or dragged in and saved the files as either Presentations or Packages and they always seem to be the same, except that packages are saved in a folder. I would have thought that the Packages format would copy the graphics and movies to the folder, but it appears to just be saving the graphics and movies inside the presentation. The only file ever saved in the folder is the presentation itself. I can't find anything in the preferences about saving linked files inside the presentation which, if I recall correctly, was an option in older versions of PP.
Can someone enlighten me on this? When are graphics/movies just linked and when are they actually put inside the PP file? When is it necessary to save as a Package?
thanks,
kman
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