We have an instance where a person's laptop crashed, luckily we have all the Articulate files backed up. The crashed laptop was used to develop the content in Office 2010. The backup laptop we have has Office 2007. Can a single project be developed using both versions of Office without concern? Or could there be negative impacts?
Hi Dane and welcome to Heroes! That shouldn't be a problem as 2007 and 2010 are pretty similar. It's only when you move between 2003 or earlier and 2007 or 2010 that you can see issues due to the version of PowerPoint you are using.
I've been bouncing between PPT2010(2011) and 2007 a bit on two different machines. I'm running PPT2011 for Mac. There are some minor issues with effects (shadows are projected 180 degrees out) but it works fine aside from this.
@Steve: Are you opening your active PowerPoint/Presenter projects in the Mac PowerPoint '11 too? I've never tried editing an active project in PPT Mac. It doesn't cause any issues with your ppta assets?
Justin & Steve, thanks for the feedback... sounds like a pretty seemless situation between Office 2010 and 2007! Great to hear! David, great question... I am impressed that Articulate's PPTA file is universal to both Win and Mac!
It doesn't seem to cause any issues, but I'm not doing anything crazy like adding or deleting slides. Minor adjustments on each side so the links to the PPTA is pretty safe.
BTW, PPT2011 has a few nice features that PPT2010 doesn't have. The reorder feature is neat (provides a visual view of the layers of a screen in an exploded view). But I still prefer 2010:( Things like the selection and visibility pane (a MUST USE) are missing from PPT2011.
I bought 2010 for my Windows 7 virtual machine. I just like using my native development tools and tend to bounce back and forth quite a bit building illustrations or media elements. This gets tiresome with the virtual machine eating so many cycles. So I'm trying it out with PPT2011. Seems to work OK so far but I'm finding the lack of the selection pane makes the experience come up short.
Steve, great feedback on 2011 for the Mac! I am in a mixed environment at home and sometimes do work from there, so this is valuable info! Hopefully the next version will bring back the Selection Pane and Visibility Pane! I agree... MUST USE!!
One drawback I've just noticed on the Mac. If you embed objects into your slides, Mac will kick up an ActiveX error. So it works pretty well going back and forth until you place an object. I'm not sure if this happens with Engage, Quizmaker, or Flash files (I placed all three). I suspect this will happen with any of the three.
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Hi Dane and welcome to Heroes! That shouldn't be a problem as 2007 and 2010 are pretty similar. It's only when you move between 2003 or earlier and 2007 or 2010 that you can see issues due to the version of PowerPoint you are using.
I've been bouncing between PPT2010(2011) and 2007 a bit on two different machines. I'm running PPT2011 for Mac. There are some minor issues with effects (shadows are projected 180 degrees out) but it works fine aside from this.
@Steve: Are you opening your active PowerPoint/Presenter projects in the Mac PowerPoint '11 too? I've never tried editing an active project in PPT Mac. It doesn't cause any issues with your ppta assets?
Justin & Steve, thanks for the feedback... sounds like a pretty seemless situation between Office 2010 and 2007! Great to hear! David, great question... I am impressed that Articulate's PPTA file is universal to both Win and Mac!
It doesn't seem to cause any issues, but I'm not doing anything crazy like adding or deleting slides. Minor adjustments on each side so the links to the PPTA is pretty safe.
BTW, PPT2011 has a few nice features that PPT2010 doesn't have. The reorder feature is neat (provides a visual view of the layers of a screen in an exploded view). But I still prefer 2010:( Things like the selection and visibility pane (a MUST USE) are missing from PPT2011.
I bought 2010 for my Windows 7 virtual machine. I just like using my native development tools and tend to bounce back and forth quite a bit building illustrations or media elements. This gets tiresome with the virtual machine eating so many cycles. So I'm trying it out with PPT2011. Seems to work OK so far but I'm finding the lack of the selection pane makes the experience come up short.
Steve, great feedback on 2011 for the Mac! I am in a mixed environment at home and sometimes do work from there, so this is valuable info! Hopefully the next version will bring back the Selection Pane and Visibility Pane! I agree... MUST USE!!
One drawback I've just noticed on the Mac. If you embed objects into your slides, Mac will kick up an ActiveX error. So it works pretty well going back and forth until you place an object. I'm not sure if this happens with Engage, Quizmaker, or Flash files (I placed all three). I suspect this will happen with any of the three.
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