Power point 2004 incompatible with powerpoint 2003

[Patrick]

I just created a Mac powerpoint 2004 presentation and transfer to my PC and
could not open it with powerpoint 2003. Pls help. I have tried using the mac
compatibility and found no problem. Help and thanks

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Have you applied at least Service Pack 1? To check, choose Help,
About Microsoft PowerPoint. You'll see the version and SP number in
one of the first couple lines at top of resulting dialog box.

Note that applying the Service Pack is specifically for your Windows
versiion of PowerPoint. If you have not applied the latest service pack,
that will almost certainly fix your problem.

--David

 

[Patrick]

windows is service pack 2 and powerpoint should have all the updates. Also
run in a number of different other PC and same problem.

Also ran this on mac parallels with windows service pack2 and PPT2003 still
same.

ppt 2003 prompt is "PowerPoint can't read E:\Senai Jan08.ppt"

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

It's not the version of Windows that is the problem here. It is the
version of PowerPoint/Office. My guess is that you have not updated to
the latest service pack for Office. The problem is that PowerPoint 2003
was broken out of the box. The first service pack fixed it, but few
people bother to update their version of Office. That is why it is not
surprising that you are seeing this on multiple computers. Start up
PowerPoint, go to the Help menu, and choose Check for Updates. Follow
the instructions to install the latest service packs.
--David