Office 2000 compatibility problem

[Rowi]

I am running Vista Basic and have MS Office 2000 Professional installed on it
(I know I seriously need to upgrade, but am a student with budget issues).
I'm trying to use my Power Point 2000 to open a .pptx created in Power Point
2007, and I've tried to follow the necessary instructions.

First I installed the Compatibility Pack, and that didn't help. The website
said I needed to have all necessary office updates, so I upgraded my Office
to the SR-1 version, and then I installed Service Pack 3 (that's the order it
told me to do it in). Then I even un- and reinstalled the Compatibility Pack.
It still doesn't work.

When I try to open the .pptx file, it says: "PowerPoint can't read the
outline from 'file.pptx'. No text converter is installed for this file type."
I thought I followed the instructions correctly, and am not sure what to try
next.

Thanks for any help,
Rob

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...40-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

There is a free Powerpoint Viewer 2007 from MS; link is above.
There are also, Word and Excel 2007 free viewers.


Hope it helps.

 

[Rowi]

Ok, so I just managed to get an upgrade to Office 2007 through my work, so
the problem is no more. Thanks for the advice anyway.

-rob