Nightmare! PP XP & 2000

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My desktop at the office runs Office XP, my laptop Office 2000. Getting
ready for a four hour presentation with half a dozen slide shows. Save
everything to the laptop, long stort short, without the boring details, the
slide shows do not function properly. No time to do anything besides have a
nervous breakdown, tried saving PP XP as 2000 - no go. No time to redo the
shows as 2000 files either. Anyway, I found a work-around that I'd like to
share; I converted the PP XP shows to web pages and loaded them to the
laptop and it worked. I was able to open IE Explorer and display the shows
as web pages without a hitch, and in full screen mode (F11) you could barely
tell the difference! Hope this helps if someone finds themself in a jam.
 
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My desktop at the office runs Office XP, my laptop Office 2000. Getting
ready for a four hour presentation with half a dozen slide shows. Save
everything to the laptop, long stort short, without the boring details, the
slide shows do not function properly. No time to do anything besides have a
nervous breakdown, tried saving PP XP as 2000 - no go. No time to redo the
shows as 2000 files either. Anyway, I found a work- around that I'd like to
share; I converted the PP XP shows to web pages and loaded them to the
laptop and it worked. I was able to open IE Explorer and display the shows
as web pages without a hitch, and in full screen mode (F11) you could barely
tell the difference! Hope this helps if someone finds themself in a jam.


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Im Haveing a simular problem how do I convert to web
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pages

thanks for your anticipated help
 
My desktop at the office runs Office XP, my laptop Office 2000. Getting
ready for a four hour presentation with half a dozen slide shows. Save
everything to the laptop, long stort short, without the boring details, the
slide shows do not function properly.
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Thanks for sharing the workaround. But if you're also interested in working
out WHY the problem happened in the first place, you'll need to let us know
what "do not function properly" means in specific terms. That covers a lot of
ground. ;-)

If it's a matter of the animations not working, then Sonia's nailed it for you.
If it's sounds/movies not playing and links breaking, we have a different story
to tell.
No time to do anything besides have a
nervous breakdown, tried saving PP XP as 2000 - no go. No time to redo the
shows as 2000 files either. Anyway, I found a work-around that I'd like to
share; I converted the PP XP shows to web pages and loaded them to the
laptop and it worked. I was able to open IE Explorer and display the shows
as web pages without a hitch, and in full screen mode (F11) you could barely
tell the difference! Hope this helps if someone finds themself in a jam.
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create a folder somewhere, on the desktop maybe. open the file, 'save as',
below where the file name appears, there another dropdown 'save as type',
click on it and save as web page to the folder you created.

HTH

JEM
 
Short List:

I created the show in English and Japanese; a lot of the Japanese converted
to unreadable characters even thought it was loaded to a computer with
Japanese OS.

Clip art that had been flipped, rotated, or resized reverted to its original
configuration.

Page layouts copied from Publisher, even though they were converted to
metafiles in the original slidshow, appeared on the page as pure garbage,
tables overlapping, clipart strewn across the page.

Some metafiles that would actually display properly caused the show to hang
or the computer to crash.

Tried saving as PP2000 and file size went from 6MB to 150MB. (NOT a typo!)

Those are the major ones....
 
Short List:

I created the show in English and Japanese; a lot of the Japanese converted
to unreadable characters even thought it was loaded to a computer with
Japanese OS.
Click to expand...

In 2003, for example, installing an English version into a Japanese OS isn't
necessarily enough. It might want either the Japanese version of Office as
well or at a minimum, installing the optional Japanese support. I've done that
in Office 2003 English on Windows XP English with Japanese support installed
and can do Japanese in Office. I think the situation's pretty much the same
with 2002 but I'm not sure how much support 2000 has for Japanese when you
install non-Japanese versions. If you have Japanese versions in both cases,
then ignore all this, as it's pretty much a non-issue.
Clip art that had been flipped, rotated, or resized reverted to its original
configuration.
Click to expand...
Page layouts copied from Publisher, even though they were converted to
metafiles in the original slidshow, appeared on the page as pure garbage,
tables overlapping, clipart strewn across the page.

Some metafiles that would actually display properly caused the show to hang
or the computer to crash.
Click to expand...

In each case, it'd be a good idea to ungroup then regroup the drawings/clip
art, etc. That can help prevent some problems or give you an early warning if
others are in the wings.

All of the above are before you did the save backwards, right?
Tried saving as PP2000 and file size went from 6MB to 150MB. (NOT a typo!)
Click to expand...

Saving as 2000 isn't really that ... the important part of that option is off
the screen: " ... & PowerPoint 95"

PPT 95 supports no image compression, so when you choose that option, all
images are expanded to full humongosity. deKAI desu yo. Since all versions of
PPT from 97 on use the same file format, this is something you never need to do
unless you specifically need to share files with PowerPoint 95 users. And even
then you're better off giving them a copy of the viewer and suggesting that
they use that.
Those are the major ones....
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--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================
 
Thanks Steve!

I'll be more careful from now on.

Steve Rindsberg said:
In 2003, for example, installing an English version into a Japanese OS isn't
necessarily enough. It might want either the Japanese version of Office as
well or at a minimum, installing the optional Japanese support. I've done that
in Office 2003 English on Windows XP English with Japanese support installed
and can do Japanese in Office. I think the situation's pretty much the same
with 2002 but I'm not sure how much support 2000 has for Japanese when you
install non-Japanese versions. If you have Japanese versions in both cases,
then ignore all this, as it's pretty much a non-issue.



In each case, it'd be a good idea to ungroup then regroup the drawings/clip
art, etc. That can help prevent some problems or give you an early warning if
others are in the wings.

All of the above are before you did the save backwards, right?
typo!)

Saving as 2000 isn't really that ... the important part of that option is off
the screen: " ... & PowerPoint 95"

PPT 95 supports no image compression, so when you choose that option, all
images are expanded to full humongosity. deKAI desu yo. Since all versions of
PPT from 97 on use the same file format, this is something you never need to do
unless you specifically need to share files with PowerPoint 95 users. And even
then you're better off giving them a copy of the viewer and suggesting that
they use that.


--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================
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