Using Presenter on a Mac with Parallels

[Webbed_Warrior]

I am a Mac user, but stuck using a PC at work. My PC has continual problems that my Mac would never have, but I was told there wasn't a Mac version of Adobe presenter, so I'm stuck. If I run a parallel windows XP desktop on my mac, can't I install presenter in my Powerpoint in there?

Will that cause problems? Is there any functionality I will lose if I do this? Its still windows XP software so it should work seamlessly, right?

[Jase415]

I use Parallels to run a virtual machine with Windows XP, and Presenter works just fine. You obviously just need a copy of Parallels, and a license for Windows and Office as well as Presenter itself.

One thing: Presenter doesn't like to work with PowerPoint files that exist on my Mac (using the Parallels folder sharing feature). Something about the UNC paths that cause problems. So I put the PowerPoint file and any related audio/video media on the virtual machine C: drive and that makes Presenter happy. I've seen some posts where people say the UNC path issue (which would also affect people using files on a network) is a known problem.