Powerpoint closes itself when I want to change anything in presentation page

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Pe@ceR

Dear friends

I am using Office XP turkish edition and I have problem with powerpoint
presentation

There is an old Powerpoint slide file which has one page of presentation to
use it as poster presentation and it has 74.07x105.87 cm dimensions with one
page

You can check the file from here http://peacertr.kolayweb.com/poster.ppt

We want to use this powerpoint file to use as template one for a new poster.
So we want to change writings on it but whenever we change anything on file,
powerpoint closes itself without any confirmation. Even deletion of one
character closes the powerpoint and file itself. Also at the time of first
opening of file, the document "flashes" a few times strangely

There is absolutely no virus in document according to Norton Antivirus
Corporate edition and all virus informations are updated.

It happens not only in one computer. I thought the office files are
corrupted in my computer but it happens in all computers loaded with Office
XP turkish edition. All computers have Office XP with different
installations and this explains office installation CD of just mine is not
erroeous

One of a friend told me that, ths problem not occurs with this file with
Office XP English version in his computer. But the file closes itself in all
Office XP turhish versions.

All Office updates are done with according languages. The problem persisrs
with or without updates.

Can you help me to find out the problem or is it a bug in all Office XP
Turkish versions ?
 
A friend from this newsgroup has already sent me the file as you described.
He opened the file in spanish version of office XP and send me the saved
one. But has no change, still closes itself.. Even, it does not wait for me
to change something, it just closes itself in seconds even if I don't do
anything.

It is a bit urgent problem because I am a doctor and this presentation is to
be done for a medical congree soon, next week. So I tried to remove the
Office XP from computer and I installed previous Office2000 turkish version.
Surprisingly, Office 2000 opened the file quite well and there is no problem
with changing the file contents, no "flashing" thing at all.

So this is obvious for this file that,

1-) Every computer which has Office XP turkish version, you can't use the
file at all
2-) Older Office versions in same language or Office XP versions in any
language other than Turkish one has no problem with the file at all.

From this point of view, Office XP turkish version powerpoint has a problem,
or bug

One thing I have to remember, or give you as a clue is, the file is firstly
generated by an older office version (Office 97 or 2000 but not XP I am
sure)

Did you have chance to download and check the file ?
 
Hi,

I didn't download the file - from your description, there didn't seem to be
a reason to since I only have English versions of PowerPoint and a Japanese
one that I can't make any sense of.

It sounds like you've done the wise thing in reverting to an older version
of PowerPoint. I'll see if we can get this passed along to someone who
might be able to figure it out.

Sorry not to have a real answer for you ...


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