Presentation vanished after upgrade to Office 2003 final

[Randy Hall]

A co-worker sent a Powerpoint presentation last week that
worked fine under the Office 2003 beta. After upgrading
to the final version over the weekend, the very same
presentation is now invisible. It has the right number
of slides but the text is blank.

Anybody else see this?

-Randy

 

[Randy Hall]

-----Original Message-----
A co-worker sent a Powerpoint presentation last week that
worked fine under the Office 2003 beta. After upgrading
to the final version over the weekend, the very same
presentation is now invisible. It has the right number
of slides but the text is blank.

Anybody else see this?

-Randy
.

I found a work-around. Doesn't solve the problem but
it's better than nothing right now. I downloaded the
PowerPoint97 viewer from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=7C404E8E-5513-46C4-AA4F-
058A84A37DF1&displaylang=EN

I am able to see the contents of the foils (but can't
edit them). Unfortunate that the ppt is
viewable/editable in the Office 2003 beta but not in the
final product.

-Randy

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

I am able to see the contents of the foils (but can't

edit them). Unfortunate that the ppt is
viewable/editable in the Office 2003 beta but not in the
final product.

This sometimes happens during betas. It's why MS warns explicitly against
using the beta for production work or even on a production computer.

I wonder - can you find someone who still has the beta? If so, try opening
the presentation in that, then saving as HTML. The HTML might "round trip"
back into the released version of PPT2003 for you.

 

[Echo S]

Randy, can you email the presentation to me? Someone at MS would like to
take a look at it. Please don't post it to the newsgroup, just send it
via email if you can.