PPT file not opening in windows works in Mac

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Srik

I have a notebook which has Mac operating System
with "Office 10 for Mac" in it.

I also have a PC with Windows XP as its Operating System
with office 2000.

Whenever I try to bring any Power point file created in
Mac to Windows OS the powerpoint file does not open.It
shows it as blank and also the file size reduces
drastically (If its 12KB in Mac it becomes 85 bytes in
windows).Also the extension of the file hen i bring from
Mac to Windows OS changes to "._filename"

This occurs only with PowerPoint as I tried to transfer a
Excel file also, though the filesize and name were
changed, after renaming it to .xls in windows it worked
fine.

I have a USB smart media card which I use to transfer
these files.


Please help, any workarounds will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Srik
 
Srik,

A lot of windows applicationss rely on the 3 letter extension.

Try manually adding the 3 letter extension to the powerpoint file before you
try to open it.

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Disk drives and smartmedia cards don't ordinarily change file names on you
willynilly.
One thing that *does* happen when you copy from Mac to PC formatted file
systems (and I think we can treat the USB gadget as one of these) is that
the Mac's two-fork file becomes two separate files on the PC disk. It
sounds like perhaps you're trying to open the "resource" fork file, not the
actual data file.

Try saving the file to the USB gadget as MYFILE.PPT
No spaces, no punctuation, nothing fancy whatever, but add the .PPT
extension to the end.
Or better, save to the Mac HDD as that, then copy to the USB gadget.

Then move the USBthing to the PC and try to open MYFILE.PPT (not anything
else with MYFILE in the name)
 
Hi!

The three letter extension did not work.I tried the pack
and go feature in Mac and then transferred it to PC
(WinXP).However problem still persists.If I double click
on the file it opens PPT but it contains only junk
characters.

The fonts I have used are available on both the systems.

Thank you
 
Hi!

I appreciate you for the help.

The three letter extension did not work.I tried the pack
and go feature in Mac and then transferred it to PC
(WinXP).However problem still persists.If I double click
on the file it opens PPT but it contains only junk
characters.

The fonts I have used are available on both the systems.

Thank you
 
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