Can't Import Slides From .htm

[Mongoose]

I work at a school, where the profs sometimes post their powerpoints on
line for students. The powerpoint show is posted as an .htm file, so it
shows up as a web page. In Internet Explorer, the students can click
File > Edit in PowerPoint, and turn it back into a PowerPoint file. That
way, they can print out the slides they want, the way they want.

We installed Office 2007 on some machines, where we had been using 2003.
Now this feature doesn't work. On a 2003 machine, the slides come out
right. On a 2007 machine, the text goes way outside the text boxes, and
off the edges of the slides. When the student tries to print it, the text
is cut off where it goes off the edge of the slide.

As far as I know, the original slide shows were created in PowerPoint 2003.
Is this a problem going from 2003 to 2007, or from PowerPoint in htm to
PowerPoint in pptx?

 

[Mongoose]

A little background:

At one point (when Office 2000 was under construction) MS got the
(odd, it seems to me) notion that HTML was some kind of universal
solution to all format problems. They then did an amazing job of
implementing "round-tripping" ... this ability to send PPT files out
to HTML then to open them back into PPT with all features intact.

With Office 2007, they no longer promise full round-tripping support
and in 2010 the ability to save as HTML goes away. Kaput. Or in
MSoftian, "deprecated". It's dead, Jim.

Whether what you're seeing is a side effect of this or not, I don't
know.

<Some Deleted>

Thanks for the reply. We did a little testing. It's a problem between
Office 03 and Office 07. The file in question was created using
PowerPoint 2003. We opened it in 07, saved it as an 07 file, then
opened it and posted to the web. This time, we were able to open it in
IE, and convert it back to PowerPoint file with no problem.

Per our IT department, this is one of the last people to get Office
2007. As soon as he does, I expect the problem to go away.

Again, thanks for the information.