PPT 2k problem help me!

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a big problem! I hope You can help me! So: I have a .pps presentation
I open it with PPT 2000, I change a few slide, I click on "Save As" and then
I can' t close the application and it make a .tmp file that I can't open! If
I save to other format (Powerpoint 97-2000 presentation) then it work but the
size of file is very large!
You make me happy if You can help me!
Thank and sorry for i waste your time!

Regards,
Robert Bona

 

[Michael Koerner]

What happens if you just select save, and not Save As? By default it should
save it as a presentation which can be opened in all versions of PowerPoint
with the exception of 95

 

[Guest]

The problem is same when I click on "save"! Sometimes it works, but it
usually doesn't! If I just save as a presentaion I can't close the PPT,only
from Taskmanager and makes an unusable .tmp file! I think the presentation
made in PPT 2003 and I downloaded SP3 for Office 2000, but it didn't help
me! So if You have another idea I gladly wait for and thanks for your help!

Robert Bona

 

[Michael Koerner]

Sounds like external forces at work here. I would suggest that you do a
complete system clean up, in including a disk defrag, then try you
PowerPoint presentation again. Have you considered uninstalling and
reinstalling PowerPoint?

 

[Guest]

It isn't an individual problem! My other co-workers and my BOSS have same
problem! A few of them have a "virgin", fresh-installed Windows and Office!
If I use other version of Office (XP or 2003) I don't reproducate this
mistake! I try to print this presentation, so I can choose the wrong slide,
because I can't print these slide! I delete them and printing is works! But I
don't know what is wrong with them! I have no idea what I should do! You may
be in right: special extarnal forces...

Robert Bona

 

[Michael Koerner]

I don't know what to add other than to ensure that all your print drivers
are up to date. If it works on one machine and not another leads me to
believe that PowerPoint is at fault

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

It isn't an individual problem! My other co-workers and my BOSS have same
problem! A few of them have a "virgin", fresh-installed Windows and Office!
If I use other version of Office (XP or 2003) I don't reproducate this
mistake! I try to print this presentation, so I can choose the wrong slide,
because I can't print these slide! I delete them and printing is works! But I
don't know what is wrong with them!

Sometimes slides get corrupted. Since you've been able to isolate at least some
of the problems to specific slides (nice detective work, by the way) here are a
few ideas:

Make a copy of your presentation file and work on that.
Go into slide sorter view.
Select a "problem" slide and press Ctrl+C
Press Ctrl+V to paste in a new copy of the slide
Delete the original slide

Now try printing.

Also, open the presentation in 2003 and try "round-tripping to html"

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

After doing that, see if the presentation will behave in 2000. If you can't
successfully save the presentation to HTML from 2003, it's almost a sure thing
that some of the slides are corrupted. If copy/pasting them doesn't help, it
may be simplest to re-create them and delete the originals.