Opening an Older PPT Presentation in 2007

[Guest]

We received a file from a client created in an earlier version of PowerPoint.
When opening the file in 2007, the slides contain gibberish. I also have
2003 on this computer; when opening the file in 2003, all 10 slides are
readable. The font is Avenir 65, which I don't have installed on my
computer. Reading the threads in this discussion group, it seems that unless
I have that font resident on my computer, I won't be able to read the text.
Why would I be able to read the file in 2003 and not in 2007? I happen to be
the only user in the office who has both versions on my computer. I suppose
I could tell the other users to use the PPT Viewer when these oddities occur.


But I'm confused: I have the same default printer driver for both programs,
so it isn't the printer driver. I don't have the font installed, but I can
read the slides in one program, but not the other.

Any ideas?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We received a file from a client created in an earlier version of PowerPoint.
When opening the file in 2007, the slides contain gibberish. I also have
2003 on this computer; when opening the file in 2003, all 10 slides are
readable. The font is Avenir 65, which I don't have installed on my
computer. Reading the threads in this discussion group, it seems that unless
I have that font resident on my computer, I won't be able to read the text.

Not exactly. If you don't have the font on your computer, PowerPoint will
substitute a different font ... you should still see the text but it may show
different linebreaks and such.

But if for some odd reason its' substituting a symbol font or the like, then
you'd get gibberish.

What happens if you use Format, Replace Fonts (oh for Pete's sake, where did
they hide it in ... Ah. Home Tab, Editing, Replace, Replace Fonts). Choose
Avenir and substitute Arial.

Still gibberish, or do you now get readable text?

By the way, how large is the text?