still no content text when viewing 2007 slides in viewer or PPT200

[Guest]

Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?

 

[Echo S]

When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to do!
(PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is, so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.

You probably can; you just need to know where they hid it:

Click the Office button, click Save As, choose Other Formats. There you can
pick Web Page next to "Save as type:"

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice and offer to review the problem slides! In the meantime
I have found an Office 2003 license and installed PPT 2003, and guess what,
the saved-as-PPT2003-slides work pretty much as to be expected (and with the
text, that was my problem) - they just to not work under PPT2003 Viewer!

So I am taking this question off the list, it could be everything is ok, and
there is just a compatibliltiy problem for 2003 Viewer only.

When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to do!
(PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is, so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not
create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web
format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate
address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for
selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?

 

[Echo S]

Ahhhh. That wouldn't surprise me. You might still try the round-trip thing,
as it could resolve some of the display problems you're seeing in the
Viewers.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Thanks for the advice and offer to review the problem slides! In the
meantime
I have found an Office 2003 license and installed PPT 2003, and guess
what,
the saved-as-PPT2003-slides work pretty much as to be expected (and with
the
text, that was my problem) - they just to not work under PPT2003 Viewer!

So I am taking this question off the list, it could be everything is ok,
and
there is just a compatibliltiy problem for 2003 Viewer only.

When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save
to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to
do!
(PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is,
so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd
include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

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Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I
still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003
or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I
no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my
master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not
create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web
format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web
address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate
address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for
selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text
in?

 

[happy husker]

Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?

 

[happy husker]

Can you, or anyone, tell me how to enable my PPT2003 program to display files
that are saved and sent from PPT 2007?

 

[Echo S]

Try this:

PowerPoint 2007 text editing slow, text cut off, text display or formatting
problems, print, crash problems
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm

 

[Pia Bork]

Can you, or anyone, tell me how to enable my PPT2003 program to display
files
that are saved and sent from PPT 2007?

you can install the Compatibility pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&DisplayLang=en

 

[spancha]

This so-called Compatibility Pack just does not work! I have installed it -
tried on two different machines - when I try to open a file created in
Powerpoint 2007 in Powerpoint 2002, it crashes every time