Corrupted Slides

[D. Thompson]

Greetings!

After using PowerPoint for years, I have just started receiving this error
message -a long with the specified blank replacement slides in Office 2003
SP2:

PowerPoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or
objects on slides in the
file, filename.ppt, because they have become corrupted. Effected
slides
have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation and it is
not possible to recover
the lost information.

Have experienced this with several different presentations, so the questions
are;
What caused the slide to become corrupted in the first place, and what can
be done to fix it?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Greetings!

After using PowerPoint for years, I have just started receiving this error
message -a long with the specified blank replacement slides in Office 2003
SP2:

PowerPoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or
objects on slides in the
file, filename.ppt, because they have become corrupted. Effected
slides
have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation and it is
not possible to recover
the lost information.

Have experienced this with several different presentations, so the questions
are;
What caused the slide to become corrupted in the first place, and what can
be done to fix it?

What's on the problem slides?

Do the same presentations/slides open w/o problems on earlier versions of
PowerPoint (if you have an earlier version available)?

 

[D. Thompson]

What's on the problem slides?

Do the same presentations/slides open w/o problems on earlier versions of
PowerPoint (if you have an earlier version available)?
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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The slides are a combination of text created within PowerPoint and graphics,
typically one graphic per slide. It affected more than one presentations
because we didn't connect the first with a program problem-just thought it
was a file error...

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The slides are a combination of text created within PowerPoint and graphics,
typically one graphic per slide. It affected more than one presentations
because we didn't connect the first with a program problem-just thought it
was a file error...

And no obvious differences between the slides that go corrupt and those that
don't?

Do you happen to have an older version of PPT still installed (ie, one that can
open the problem files w/o losing slides)?

If so, it'd be worth "roundtripping" the presentations to HTML and back.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00526.htm

 

[Guest]

I've gotten this error message myself. I assume you have 2003 with the
latest patch (SP2)--when I got the patch is when I started getting the error.
So it seems to be related to the patch. It doesn't affect new
presentations--just old ones created before the patch. So far, I haven't
seen any problems in the slides, but to get rid of the error, I create a new
blank presentation and import the slides into it. That takes care of the
error message.