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  1. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 helps you create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person Remove backgrounds or add color filters to your photos right within PowerPoint; rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.
  2. The Office for Mac 2011 training downloads include Portable Document Format (.pdf) and PowerPoint (.pptx) versions of all Office 2011 tutorials and videos. To access the same training online, visit www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to.
  3. Content Creation Walkthrough: PPT 2011 for Mac 1 For further assistance with ADA Compliance issues contact Distance Learning’s ADA Specialist Taylor Villescas Email: taylor.villescas@gmail.com Creating Accessible Presentations in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac Note: PowerPoint 2011 on Mac does not offer an Accessibility Checker.
  4. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 helps you create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person Remove backgrounds or add color filters.
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The PowerPoint for Mac 2011 Essential Training Course provides instructions for using custom themes, formatting text, inserting charts, tables, pictures SmartArt drawings, and animations, as well as tips regarding how to deliver an effective presentation to your audience.

Symptoms

When you start Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, or when you try to open a new presentation, you experience one of the following conditions:

  • The program closes unexpectedly.

  • Error message:

Resolution

To resolve this problem, follow these steps.

Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 or later

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Step 1: Remove Powerpoint Preferences

  1. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  2. On the Go menu, click Home.

  3. Open Library.

    Note

    The Library folder is hidden in Mac OS X Lion. To display this folder, hold down the OPTION key while you click the Go menu.

  4. Open Preferences.

  5. Drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.plist to the desktop.If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. Go to step 7.

  6. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, restore the file to its original location, and go to the next step. If the problem is resolved, drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.plist to the Trash.

  7. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  8. On the Go menu, click Home.

  9. Open Library.

    Note

    The Library folder is hidden in Mac OS X Lion. To display this folder, hold down the OPTION key while you click the Go menu.

  10. Open Preferences.

  11. Open Microsoft, and then drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.prefs.plist to the desktop.If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. Go to step 13.

  12. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, restore the file to its original location, and go to the next step. If the problem is resolved, drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.prefs.plist to the Trash.

  13. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  14. On the Go menu, click Home.

  15. Open Library.

    Note

    The Library folder is hidden in Mac OS X Lion. To display this folder, hold down the OPTION key whil you click the Go menu.

  16. Open Preferences.

  17. Open Microsoft, and then Office 2008 (or Office 2011).

  18. Drag PowerPoint Toolbars (12) or Microsoft PowerPoint Toolbars to the desktop.

    If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. Go to 'Step 2: Try PowerPoint in Safe Mode Boot.'

  19. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, restore the file to its original location, and go to 'Step 2: Try PowerPoint in Safe Mode Boot.' If the problem is resolved, drag PowerPoint Toolbars (12) or Microsoft PowerPoint Toolbars to the Trash.

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Step 2: Try Powerpoint in Safe Mode Boot

Restart your computer in the Safe Mode. For more information about how to restart your computer in the Safe Mode, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base

2398596 How to use a 'clean startup' to determine whether background programs are interfering with Office for Mac

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Once in safe mode, test Powerpoint. If the issue continues to occur, proceed to next step.

Step 3: Remove and then reinstall Office

For information how to remove and then reinstall Office, see the following article:

If the issue continues to occur in Safe mode, proceed to Step 3.

Step 4: Use the 'Repair Disk Permissions' option

You can use the Repair Disk Permissions option to troubleshoot permissions problems in Mac OS X 10.2 or later versions. To use the Repair Disk Permissions option, follow these steps:

  1. On the Go menu, click Utilities.
  2. Start the Disk Utility program.
  3. Click the primary hard disk drive for your computer.
  4. Click the First Aid tab.
  5. Click Repair Disk Permissions.

Note

Disk Utility program only repairs software that is installed by Apple. This utility also repairs folders, such as the Applications folder. However, this utility does not repair software that is in your home folder.

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  1. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  2. On the Go menu, click Home.

  3. Open Library, and then open Preferences.

  4. Drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.plist to the desktop.

    If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. Go to step 6.

  5. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, restore the file to its original location, and go to the next step. If the problem is resolved, drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.plist to the Trash.

  6. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  7. On the Go menu, click Home.

  8. Open Library, and then open Preferences.

  9. Open Microsoft, and then drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.prefs.plist to the desktop.

    If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. Go to step 11.

  10. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, restore the file to its original location, and go to the next step. If the problem is resolved, drag com.microsoft.powerpoint.prefs.plist to the Trash.

  11. Quit all Microsoft Office for Mac programs.

  12. On the Go menu, click Home.

  13. Open Library, and then open Preferences.

  14. Open Microsoft, and then drag PowerPoint Toolbars (11) to the desktop.

    If you cannot locate the file, PowerPoint is using the default preferences. The problem is not related to the preference files.

  15. Open PowerPoint, and check whether the problem still occurs. If the problem still occurs, quit PowerPoint, and then restore the file to its original location. The problem is not related to the preference files. If the problem is resolved, drag PowerPoint Toolbars (11) to the Trash.

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PowerPoint 2011 for Mac is new and it is good. It takes all the best things from PowerPoint 2010 and incorporates them into an awesome presentation system for the Mac.

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So how does PowerPoint 2011 work with our animated templates you ask? Very well indeed. You can simply download any of the templates for PowerPoint 2011. No more linked video files. All the files are embedded directly in the templates.

Mac PowerPoint 2008

You can also use our templates with Mac PowerPoint 2008. If you experience any difficulties getting the template to animate properly, make sure PowerPoint 2008 is up to date by completing the following:

Our animated templates require that Mac PowerPoint 2008 is running certian updates and bug fixes that Microsoft has released over the last couple of years. If you are experiencing difficulty with the animations playing properly, most likely the cause is your software need to be updated. This is a simple process. In PowerPoint 2008, click the help tab on the top bar, and then select “Check for Updates”. Be sure to install any updates you are missing. Restart your computer after any updates.


Discover the future of PowerPoint presentations with our animated templates for PC and Mac versions of PowerPoint. Here are some examples of the newest animated templates we have created.





Puzzle Piece Pie Chart
An animated PowerPoint template
by PresenterMedia artist Judd Albrecht.
Download this template for Mac PowerPoint 2011 here.



Business Skyscrapers
An animated PowerPoint template
by PresenterMedia artist Josh Doohen.
Download this template for PowerPoint here.