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Re: Powerpoint 2000 to anything else?

Subject: Re: Powerpoint 2000 to anything else?
From: Kathy Jacobs <jacobskl -at- jacobs -dot- coxatwork -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:50:45 -0700

Bill,

Actually, PowerPoint 2000 files can be read as is by PowerPoint 97. PPT 97 will not be able to access any of the PPT 2000 specific work, but other than that it is fine.

What you most likely did was save it as PPT 95 or earlier. As there was no file compression in that version (or any version older than that), file bloat occurs. The problem is well known and documented as a "feature". Unfortunately, some of the bloat may not go away when you save as PPT97 or 2000. If this happens, copya nd paste your presentation into a new presentation and save that one. The bloating will be gone and you can continue as before.

In the future, just save your PPT97 and 2000 files natively and they will go back and forth without bloating.

Hope this helps.

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HALL Bill wrote:

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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