Slide corruption PowerPoint 2007

[Dave Horn]

I am experiencing some problems in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. This user is
our graphics specialist. Other users are experiencing other issues but I
thought I would work on this one first. This user is working on a Windows
Vista machine with office 2007 service pack 1 applied. We have not rolled up
to service pack 2 for this user because there is a known issue with charts in
service pack 2.

This user is receiving the following message when working with many
PowerPoint presentation decks.

Powerpoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or objects as
slides in the file (name) because they have become corrupt. Affected slides
have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation and it is not possible
to recover lost information. To ensure that the file can be opened in
previous versions of PowerPoint, use the Save As command and save the file
within the same name or a new name.

I've done some looking online and it appears like this was a big issue with
PowerPoint 2003 prior to service pack 2 . I'm wondering if this problem might
be due to the fact that the template that the graphic person uses was created
with PowerPoint 2003 and then she converted the template to PowerPoint 2007?

I'm wondering if anyone has also experienced this issue in the new version
of PowerPoint and any suggestions. My next suggestion to this user is going
to be re-creating the template from scratch using PowerPoint 2007 but wanted
to find out if there are any other options for doing that since it's a
substantial amount of work for our graphics specialist.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am experiencing some problems in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. This user is
our graphics specialist. Other users are experiencing other issues but I
thought I would work on this one first. This user is working on a Windows
Vista machine with office 2007 service pack 1 applied. We have not rolled up
to service pack 2 for this user because there is a known issue with charts in
service pack 2.

This user is receiving the following message when working with many
PowerPoint presentation decks.

Powerpoint was unable to display some of the text, images, or objects as
slides in the file (name) because they have become corrupt. Affected slides
have been replaced by blank slides in the presentation and it is not possible
to recover lost information. To ensure that the file can be opened in
previous versions of PowerPoint, use the Save As command and save the file
within the same name or a new name.

Try roundtripping the file ... ideally from PPT 2003 if you still have access to
a copy.

HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

I can't say that I've heard of the problem you mention happening simply because
of opening a 2003 file in 2007, though.