still no content text when viewing 2007 slides in viewer or PPT200

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Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?
 
When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to do!
:-) (PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is, so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. :-) Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net
 
Marketingmouse said:
Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.
Click to expand...

You probably can; you just need to know where they hid it:

Click the Office button, click Save As, choose Other Formats. There you can
pick Web Page next to "Save as type:"
 
Thanks for the advice and offer to review the problem slides! In the meantime
I have found an Office 2003 license and installed PPT 2003, and guess what,
the saved-as-PPT2003-slides work pretty much as to be expected (and with the
text, that was my problem) - they just to not work under PPT2003 Viewer!

So I am taking this question off the list, it could be everything is ok, and
there is just a compatibliltiy problem for 2003 Viewer only.

Echo S said:
When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to do!
:-) (PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is, so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. :-) Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

marketingmouse said:
Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not
create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web
format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate
address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for
selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Ahhhh. That wouldn't surprise me. You might still try the round-trip thing,
as it could resolve some of the display problems you're seeing in the
Viewers.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/


marketingmouse said:
Thanks for the advice and offer to review the problem slides! In the
meantime
I have found an Office 2003 license and installed PPT 2003, and guess
what,
the saved-as-PPT2003-slides work pretty much as to be expected (and with
the
text, that was my problem) - they just to not work under PPT2003 Viewer!

So I am taking this question off the list, it could be everything is ok,
and
there is just a compatibliltiy problem for 2003 Viewer only.

Echo S said:
When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save
to
your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).

Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to
do!
:-) (PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is,
so
I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.

If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd
include
a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
helpful. :-) Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

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Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I
still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003
or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I
no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my
master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not
create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web
format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web
address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate
address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for
selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text
in?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
marketingmouse said:
Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
slide) (if this helps).
Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not create
a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web format
only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate address
in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for selection.
So I cannot round trip.

I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?
Click to expand...
 
Can you, or anyone, tell me how to enable my PPT2003 program to display files
that are saved and sent from PPT 2007?
 
This so-called Compatibility Pack just does not work! I have installed it -
tried on two different machines - when I try to open a file created in
Powerpoint 2007 in Powerpoint 2002, it crashes every time
 
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