So I got my PowerPoint 2007 yesterday and started playing with it on my old PC to figure out why the template file wasn’t working in ppt ‘07. The good news is: I’m 99% sure I nailed the problem and will soon release a working Powerpoint version of MockApp.
For those geeky enough to care, what happened is this: I had set the Keynote template to “hyperlinks only”. The purpose of this setting is that you can’t go to the next slide just by clicking anywhere on the screen in presentation mode. That way the user has to navigate your demo by clicking on hyperlinked buttons, links, etc. that you define in your mockup (isn’t that cool?). Well… PowerPoint 2007 doesn’t think so: it sort of freaks out by flickering the mouse pointer between the hourglass and the arrow mode while consuming a ton of CPU.
Turns out, the solution is to disable Keynote’s hyperlinks-only mode before exporting to PowerPoint. And then I can open in PowerPoint and add the same setting back in by unchecking “on mouse click” in the advance slide section of the Animations menu.
For those who don’t care, if you read this far, you’re kidding yourself: you are a geek whether you like it or not!
