Can't open .ppt with PowerPoint Office2004

[Peter_Moloney]

My daughter can't open a college lecture .ppt and gets the following message
"this document might use advanced encryption that is not supported for powerpoint for Mac. If this document was created with Powerpoint for windows, [Yes it was - Vista] ask the author to save it as type Powerpoint 97-2003 and 95 presentation"

Is there any way to open this as the lecturer appears reluctant to do anything.

Currently on office 11.4.0

Thanks,
Peter

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Peter -

Sounds like the file is actually a .pptx created by PPt 2007 (Vista is the
newest version of the Windows OS & has no direct bearing on what version of
Office/PPt was used). WinOffice 2007, however, uses a new OOXML file format
as does Mac Office 2008. Earlier versions can't open those files without
converters.

If that's the case just make sure 2004 is fully up-to-date (at least 11.3.9
or 11.4.0) and download the OOXML Converters. Follow the instructions you'll
find on the site.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx

The results will be determined by what the file actually contains, but
generally it should do well. Alternatively you could have one of your
PC-user friends open the file (if they have 2007) and save a copy out in the
older format for her. If not, post back with details - there are other
options if you need them.

 

[Guest]

Hello John,

Office is up to date 11.4.0 and I've installed the xml converter, but when you drag the presentation onto the converter it says "file type not recognised"

It has a powerpoint icon and a .ppt extension (checked via get info)

I wonder can I send you a sample document 604kb?

FYI I have Windows XP running on a partition of one of my Macs (for Sat Nav Software) but I don't have Office for Windows.

Thanks for your help

Peter Moloney