Re: PPt 2003

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From: Dave (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:18:04 -0800

I installed the critical update day one and the problems
indicated below all happened AFTER installing the update.
Major question??? Why would a slide created by PP 2003
not be readable by the same program that created it?????

>-----Original Message-----
>Open PPT, go to Help/Check for Updates. Install the
critical patch.
>
>That *should* take care of it.
>
>--
>Echo [MS PPT MVP]
>
>"tod" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:121fd01c41116$cfb11c20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> I am using a 4yr old Dell that came with W98 and
upgraded
>> to XP last year. The PP presentations ran fine with
>> 97Viewer and still do. I just installed Office PP 2003
>> and it will NOT open the PP files, nor when I created a
>> test slide, would it even read and display it. It's as
>> though the PP read function is blocked????
>> The msg. I get is "PowerPoint can't read
>> (path/filename)". I think all the PP presentations
were
>> created without any security (password protection) so
>> that should not be the problem. I also have a couple
of
>> other PP files not Squadron related and it won't read
>> those either. I do think that MS has made a format
change
>> of the .ppt files with the 2003 PP software but that
>> would not explain why it wouldn't read a file that was
>> created by it.
>
>
>.
>

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