Powerpoint 2000 to anything else?

[HALL Bill <bill -dot- hall -at- tenix -dot- com>]

Someone observed problems converting Powerpoint 2000 to HTML.

I made the mistake of installing Office 2000 products at home while we are
still using 97/98 at work.

I sent a 700 K file home, did a little work on it and then tried take it
back to work by saving it as the older version (don't remember the exact
option wording as I am writing this from work) - which bloated the file to
more than 20 MB! Same results for RTF and any other methodology I thought
would give backward compatibility.

Is this a general problem, or was it unique to the particular file?

If general, for practical purposes I would call this total backward
incompatibility as the only way I can realistically transport the file back
to my work environment is to write it to a CD!

Is this yet another Billy Gates' ploy to force people with older systems to
upgrade??? How's the anti-trust suite going???

Regards,

Bill Hall
Documentation Systems Specialist
Integrated Logistic Support
Tenix ANZAC Ship Project
Williamstown, Vic. 3016 AUSTRALIA
E-mail: bill -dot- hall -at- tenix -dot- com <mailto:bill -dot- hall -at- tenix -dot- com> 

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