Help Desperately needed

GunJack

because the majority of businesses will never upgrade from XP/Office pre-2007 for exactly these issues of compatability.......unless they absolutely have to. Also it'd cost them an absolute fortune to do so, and in these times of being strapped for funds.........

Buddingblonde

Anyone know if I sent it to someone and got them to open it and save it as a new file on 2007 if it would work that way?

Buddingblonde

It is powerpoint 1997 on the works laptop

Elle7

Buddingblonde wrote: »

Anyone know if I sent it to someone and got them to open it and save it as a new file on 2007 if it would work that way?

I was going to offer to do that for you but playing around with my partners old laptop and my newer one, 2007 and 1997 really aren't compatible.

I think you'd need to go older, not newer, or remake the presentation on your own template.

I hope you get something sorted out!

MarkBargain

I understand businesses not moving to Office 2010, but to use a 1997 version really is out-of-date. 14 years ago!

Buddingblonde

Would it suprise you if I told you it was local authority? LOL
I have sent it to a friend who has copied and pasted into an older version of pp and has saved it and it works fine with that so thanks everyone for their help xx

MarkBargain

Great - I'm glad you got it sorted. :beer: Good luck with the interview.

Eve's_Dad

PowerPoint has a 'Pack and Go' feature that lets you save the presentation and associated files so that you can run it on any PC.

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7271977_use-pack_n_go-powerpoint.html

jimmy_g

Obviously you've got it solved now, but as an alternative - you should have the option to save to pdf within Powerpoint. If not, you can use Cute Pdf:
http://www.cutepdf.com/

Once you've installed this, whenever you print anything, in whatever program, you get the option to print using Cutepdf. It will output from any program into a pdf.

Then, within Adobe Reader, on the "View" drop down menu, select "Full screen mode" and, hey presto, it's just like Powerpoint.

I would suggest that you do this as a backup option anyway. I did a presentation a couple of years ago which looked fine when I put it together on my pc. However, when opened on the laptop I had to use, a number of things had somehow shifted position. If I'd had it as a pdf, I don't think that would have happened.

patman99

I work for Siemens, and they still use XP with MS Office 2003. It does the job just fine.