PPT 2003

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I have a ppt 2000 or 2002 file that I can not open with
2003. I have opened it with 2000 and It works fine I
cant seem to find anything on this in technet.

Thanks
 
Rick,

This is the word from microsoft...
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FYI: A presentation saved in PPT 2000 may not open in PowerPoint 2003 due
to new security codes that interprets some of the ways that PowerPoint 2000
saves Office Drawing objects as potential security flaws that might be
exploited. The symptoms in PowerPoint are:

1) Presentation opens up just fine in PowerPoint 2000 or PowerPoint 2002
2) When you try to open in PPT 2003 you get following error message:

"PowerPoint can't open <filename> because part of the file is missing."

The workaround is to open the presentation in PowerPoint 2002 and save the
presentation with new name (forcing a complete resave of the presentation).
After this, the file can be opened up in PowerPoint 2003.

NOTE: This is actually a core MSO problem in how Microsoft Office Drawing
objects are saved from Office 2000 and interpreted on file open in Office
2003. Because of this, problems will also occur (symptoms will vary) when:

* Open & Close a Word 2000 document in Word 2003 (or save as HTML/XML)
* Open an Excel 2000 workbook in Excel 2003 (comples OfficeArt data missing)
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Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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And there is now a Hot Fix available for PowerPoint 2003 that will correct
this. I posted the following last night:

We have been told that this is the fix for presentations created in
PowerPoint 2000 which won't open in PowerPoint 2003. I have tested the fix
and it resolves the problem, so if you have encountered this problem, I
recommend that you go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828041, and read the
article carefully.
 
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