mac powerpoint images not showing up on windows machines

ok, as a mac user, i have this problem _all_ the time. i put a powerpoint talk together and send it to a windows user who then complains that he can't see the graphic images. Windows gives a nice error about not having quicktime or some such thing. Even if the windows user installs quicktime, they still can't see the images. quite annoying.

The root cause are images that are "cut-and-pasted" into the presentation. images that are inserted from the insert->graphics->from file seem to work fine.

a good discussion of this along with a VBA script to fix the problem is at: http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00534.htm

The fix is done on the mac, and it just saves the images to a file as a png, then inserts the imgages again.

This worked for me... cheers,

- k