Problem with Powerpoint 2007

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Tammy Herbert

Because we have a varied office, all our Powerpoint 2007 machines are set to
save in the Powerpoint 97-2003 format. I have an old template that I built
in Powerpoint 2003 that works fine in 2007. If I make changes and save it
(still in the 97-2003 format) and take that presentation to a machine with
2003 Powerpoint viewer, all the text I typed in and the slides I added don't
show up. I have to use the 2007 viewer to see it all. This also occurs
with a brand new presentation created in 2007 and saved in the older format.
I've tried embedding the fonts (though the old template uses Arial) with no
success.

So far, I've been using the package for CD option to make sure that 2007
viewer is available, but I can't always do that. So I'm looking for what I
can change in Powerpoint 2007 to make sure it works on a machine running
2003. Anyone else run into this and know a fix?
 
I'm not sure there's an easy fix for this.

I've seen it happen. I cannot *force* it to happen, though, which makes it
difficult to track down this bug.

I would try opening the presentation in PPT 2003 and saving it as HTML. Then
open the HTML file in PPT and save it again as a PPT with a new name. Then
see if it works better when you package it.

Here are better instructions for the "round-tripping" through HTML:
http://www.pptworkbench.com/html/round_trip.htm
 
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