Re: PowerPoint encountered an error and needs to quit when opening exported Keynote presentation

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Hello,

Can you please try the following with the original or a copy of the Keynote
file?

1. Go to View > Show Presenter Notes
2. Delete out all of the notes across on all slides
3. Export the file again to PowerPoint format
4. Try opening the file again using Mac PowerPoint 08

Let us know if this works or you or not.

Thanks!
Andrew
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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I have attempted to export my Keynote presentations to PowerPoint, but
when I open these files in PowerPoint I get the error message:

"PowerPoint encountered an error and needs
to quit.To save a copy of the current prsentation, on the File menu, click
Save As and give the document a new name.Save any other open
presentations, and then quit and reopen PowerPoint."

I am running the Office 2008 12.1.0 and Keynote 08 (v4.0.3).

I have read on other forums that deleting all the presenter notes results
in the presentation opening successfully. I use presenter notes heavily
and this is not a satisfactory answer.

Observations:
Exported presentation is opened and viewed fine in Windows PowerPoint
Viewer (on Vista), Open Office (on Windows) and Google (when I email it to
myself, I can click 'view presentation' and it displays correctly).
Because the file seems to work in older versions of PowerPoint as well as
competing products I am lead to believe it is a problem with PowerPoint 08
for Mac.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? I was surprised to find so few
discussions about it, but the discussions I did find matched my situation
exactly.


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