I lost the ability to open three powerpoints documents that are stored on two different memory sticks ( usb flash drive). The file is there, the icon looks good. But I can’t open it with powerpoint at all. I tried with 4 different computers, two windows, two macs but I get the same message as if this isn’t recognized as a powerpoint document. I am suspicious about the memory sticks as they are both 1gig from Lexar.
I’m curious if anyone here has had a similar problem and may know how to retrieve the file.
is it a file you can send to me to try ?
You’re not trying to open a PP2007 file with an older Powerpoint are you? They messed with the file extensions on Office2007…
I’ll do it a little later.
No herbie, the file was created with the same version that couldn’t open it.
gmail it to me jason . leaman @ gmail . com
A friend had this problem, I opened it in open office, it opened fine so I saved it again and all was well.
I’ve been using OpenOffice (and NeoOffice on Mac OS X) for about 2 months now, exclusively. I’m pleasantly surprised at how awesome it is. The spreadsheet program on OpenOffice even does some of its text functions differently than Excel, so it’s saved me a ton of time on routine work stuff that I do.
I just installed Office 2008, though, so maybe I’ll give that a try and see what it’s like. It’s super-fast, for one thing.
One thing you have to be careful of is in the lastest office program you can save a doc as word 2007 doc or word doc if saved as 2007 you cannot open it on previous versions of word unless you down load a converter from the microsoft site. To avoid this problem make sure you always save your doc as word doc and not word 2007 doc if using the newest Office Suite. I bet its the same with power point too…
Glad to see that some one got the beta Torrent to download. GRR!