A solution from the mac side: your wife could buy iWork suite ($79) which has "keynote" slideshow (along with "pages" and "numbers" apps). It plays QuickTime movies beautifully along with doing a whole bunch of other powerpointy type of stuff. Regards, Tom Adams Director/Owner www.ReelifeProductions.com cool digital video stuff...not boring or dumb (from iphone: 413.575.9707) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Links: web.mac.com/reelifeproductions www.youtube.com/reelife www.nilmusic.com www.folktographybytom.com www.moschops.org 2008 Telly Award Winner: "Establishing a Local Historic District" On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:07 PM, "Dan Green" <daniel.green at charter.net> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's > area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hey there, > > > > My wife needs to prepare a PowerPoint with video. She’s a Mac and > I’m a PC. So once again I’ve been a disappointment as a husband > since I’m only familiar with inserting Windows Media files. She’s > has Quick Time movies. Will this work? If so how? If not any sug > gestions on working with videos in PowerPoint will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > Dan Green > Area President > Helping Businesses Find, Get and Keep Customers Online > TruePresence > 498 South Gulf Road, Belchertown, MA 01007 > Office: 413.253.3400 | Cell: 413-658-8470 > > www.truepresence.com | dgreen at truepresence.com > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20081002/2a42253f/attachment.htm