Re: Opening PowerPoint 95 files with PowerPoint 2007
- From: "Echo S" <msnewsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:37:44 -0500
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Apparently, PowerPoint 2007 no longer supports PowerPoint 95 or earlier
files. At first, I thought it was something similar to MS Knowledge
Base Article 922850, but moving the file to one of PowerPoint's
"trusted" locations didn't help. The error was different, too. It says,
in part, "The selected file does not appear to be a valid Microsoft
Office PowerPoint file."
This actually doesn't surprise me, as support for the PPT 95 file format has
been discontinued. MS moved to a different file format in PPT 97 and used
that through the 2003 version, and that is the only file format that's still
supported.
To see this, open a PPT file in PowerPoint 2007 (or 95, if you happen
to have it), then save it as a PowerPoint 95 file. Finally, try to open
it in PowerPoint 2007, and it will fail.
I can't save a PPT 95 file from PPT 2007 in the first place. That makes
sense to me -- 2007 won't save or open the 95 file format.
At first, I thought, "Well, MS just decided it wasn't worth supporting
formats that are this old." I didn't think much about it, but then I
managed to open a Word 2.0 file in Word 2007 (after jumping through
security hoops). Why would PowerPoint 2007 be less compatible than Word
2007?
I don't know the answer to this, but I'd bet that the PPT 95 format is more
drastically different from the later formats than it is in the Word world.
If you have a lot of PPT 95 files to deal with, I'd recommend keeping an
earlier version around to open them as necessary. And I would definitely
start saving those old files in at least the 97-2003 format! :-)
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