Re: Powerpoint presentation created in 1999 will not open

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"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:#zJNlQsRGHA.1572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

A Powerpoint presentation I created in 1999 will not open. It says
there is an error accessing it, corrupted drive, OS failure, network
corruption, etc. I was able to find 4 copies scattered over the LAN
and old computers, but all give the same message.

I find it hard to believe that all went bad at once, as there are two
creation dates. Is this a problem becuase I am using PowerPoint 2003,
rather than data corruption? Is there a repair function for corrupted
presentations as there is for Access?

Thanks,
Mich




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