Converting PowerPoint Show 7 files to Powerpoint 2000

[Guest]

After backing up key files to a DVD before reformatting my hard drive, I
found that when I reloaded Office 2000 and my backed up files onto my hard
drive all my PowerPoint files were showing as PowerPoint Show 7.
Consequently when I double clicked to open them I was asked what program I
wanted to open them with. How can I convert them back to their original form
because when I try to save them as 'presentations' a message says it is still
a ppt file and it stays as a Sohw 7 file when saved.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Save your presentations as presentations with no backward compatibility.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| After backing up key files to a DVD before reformatting my hard drive, I
| found that when I reloaded Office 2000 and my backed up files onto my hard
| drive all my PowerPoint files were showing as PowerPoint Show 7.
| Consequently when I double clicked to open them I was asked what program I
| wanted to open them with. How can I convert them back to their original
form
| because when I try to save them as 'presentations' a message says it is
still
| a ppt file and it stays as a Sohw 7 file when saved.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

After backing up key files to a DVD before reformatting my hard drive, I
found that when I reloaded Office 2000 and my backed up files onto my hard
drive all my PowerPoint files were showing as PowerPoint Show 7.
Consequently when I double clicked to open them I was asked what program I
wanted to open them with. How can I convert them back to their original form
because when I try to save them as 'presentations' a message says it is still
a ppt file and it stays as a Sohw 7 file when saved.

By "reloaded Office 2000" do you mean that you ran Setup from the CD again to
install it, or did you restore it from your backup along with the other files?

Sounds like you might have done the latter, or that something Office needs got
bunged when you restored other files from backup.

I'd try rerunning Office 2000's setup. It'll detect that it's already installed
and offer to do a maintenance/repair install (or words to that effect). Let it
do that.