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Saturday, 8 July 2006

Phantom viewer...

Posted @ 12:15

Where was I? Ah, yes, PowerPoint XP vs 2000. Well, since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to persuade 2000 to display my images without the shadows, let's try something else. PowerPoint comes with a function called "Pack and Go" where you zip the slides into a self-executable file. In the setup wizard, you have the option of adding the PowerPoint viewer to the file, so that the slides can be shown even on computers without PowerPoint (or the wrong version) - that's the theory anyway. Now, the viewer doesn't come as a standard so you will have to download it from the MS Office website.

As with all computer products, what you think you see is certainly what you won't get. After downloading the viewer (by clicking on the "download viewer" button in the setup wizard), PowerPoint insists that I do not have the viewer, so it cannot zip the application with the slides. This has happened to the two computers that I've tried.

So, there you go, I did my presentation in 2000. Luckily the room is bright enough so that you can't really see the extra shadows. Why did I not bring my own laptop? Coz they said they have all the necessary equipment in their conference room!

Labels: rant, work

Oh baz i didn't realize you are still updating your blog since the front page was not updating itself as much. I had been wondering why you were so quiet tim, thought you were vigourously working and shutting yourself down into only your PhD like Henry. One thing I find very crap with Xanga and other free weblogs, is that I have to sign up to everything if I wanna leave a comment on my friends' blog. annoying, i cant be bothered......

# posted by maggiehoi : 9:54 AM

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