The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micro$oft go bankrupt?

[Derek Broughton]

sdavmor wrote:

> Lisi Reisz wrote:

>> Ah!  I think that you have it, Franz.  Linked pictures can only be
>> accessed on the computer on which the presentation was made - it
>> would not run any better on a Linux machine running OpenOffice.org.

Or, in fact, if it was originally created in Powerpoint on Windows and run 
on another Windows machine.  So that's not any kind of drawback to OO.

>> We hit that block - the first presentation my granddaughter made
>> wouldn't run on my computer, so we had solved that one before ever
>> she tried to run it on Powerpoint.
> 
> [flashing lights]
> 
> Yes, that has to be it. Linked vs embedded. You only have to be bitten
> by that once!

Which is how I know about the problem in native Powerpoint :-)
-- 
derek