Error Message

[Alex]

I'm trying to open a Powerpoint presentation but keep
getting an error message. The message is "The outline is
too long to read in its entirety". Does anybody know what
this means?

I have tried to open the file in both XP and 2003.

Many thanks

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

I have seen this in certain instances. Is it a proper presentation or some
type of html document?

If you try to open a file and it is corrupt html, or it is full of text all
on one slide, you will get this error. There is a bunch of text and it can't
handle it. Although I have no idea what the theoretical limit might be. Will
the presentation continue to open after you get this error?

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Glen Millar
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[Alex]

Hi,

I've been emailed this document from a colleague to try to
get it to work so I'm not sure if it's HTML, etc.

The file does open after this message but the text is just
a load of rubbish and meaningless. There are over three
hundred slides when it opens incorectly (but I don't know
what the correct number should be)

Regards,

Alex

 

[Glen Millar]

Alex,

Can you see what the three-letter extension is? I'd say either html or
mhtml. If it is html, some of the supporting files may be missing. So it
loads a file full of guff but not the proper presentation.

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
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Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego CA
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[Alex]

Glen,

The three letter extension in the file name is just .ppt.
I don't know if this helps but the title of the first
corrupt slide is %PDF-1.4.

Thanks,

Alex

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The three letter extension in the file name is just .ppt.

I don't know if this helps but the title of the first
corrupt slide is %PDF-1.4.

Ah. Try renaming the .PPT file to give it a .PDF extension then see if it'll
open in Adobe Acrobat Reader.



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[Steve Rindsberg]

Can you see what the three-letter extension is? I'd say either html or

mhtml.

Three letters? html? mhtml?



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[Glen Millar]

html stands for htm ;-)
mhtml stands for mht ;-)

LOL! Sometimes you have to get past what I type to the *intent*

 

[Alex]

Fantastic, that worked!

Thanks very much,

Alex

-----Original Message-----

Ah. Try renaming the .PPT file to give it a .PDF extension then see if it'll
open in Adobe Acrobat Reader.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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