Powerpoint image issues on Mac and PC

Recently, a professor had difficulty opening a Powerpoint presentation in the Model Classroom on her PC when the project was created on a Mac.

Here is a solution from the internet:

A common problem when working between the Mac and Windows version of PowerPoint is when the file is created on the Mac version and it fails to load images in the Windows version. To fix this you are required to add images to the PowerPoint presentation without using drag and drop. To do this you should follow the instructions below.


If the image is on a web page, save it to your computer first.

In PowerPoint choose Insert > Picture > From File...

Now navigate to the location of the image in the open panel, and select the image by clicking the Insert button.


In addition:

Quicktime-compressed images won't work on the PC. Don't copy/paste images into PowerPoint. Use Insert, Picture, From File instead. Use JPG or PNG formats for images.
Quicktime movies seldom work on PCs. Use MPEG or AVI instead.

Links to external graphics files will break. Embed all graphics.

Links to most media files will break UNLESS you copy the media file to the folder where the PowerPoint file is, and only then insert it.