cannot open .pa extension

[jbe47]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel When my word documents were transferred from Word 2007 to Word 2008 for mac some of the documents have the extension .pa. I am unable to open these documents or change the extension. I hope there is a way to do so.
thank you for your help!

 

[John McGhie]

Try again in PowerPoint: that's probably a PowerPoint Extension file.

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
When my word documents were transferred from Word 2007 to Word 2008 for mac
some of the documents have the extension .pa. I am unable to open these
documents or change the extension. I hope there is a way to do so.
thank you for your help!

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[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
Intel When my word documents were transferred from Word 2007 to Word
2008 for mac some of the documents have the extension .pa. I am unable
to open these documents or change the extension. I hope there is a way
to do so.
thank you for your help!

I'm not aware of file extensions that are only two letters long. If the
extensions are .ppa those are PowerPoint add-in files, which won't work
in Office 2008. You'll have to wait for Office 2011 to use those.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

It could also be a Registry issue on the Windows system the files came from.

Depending on how you made the "transfer" ‹ email attachment? ‹ the faulty
extension could have been added by the email software involved.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm not aware of file extensions that are only two letters long. If the
extensions are .ppa those are PowerPoint add-in files, which won't work
in Office 2008. You'll have to wait for Office 2011 to use those.

-Jim

Yeah, there are a number of 2-character extensions on the Dark Side. That
particular one was used by Nova Development for their [now defunct, I
believe] Print Artist Project software.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac