"Not Recognized by Powerpoint"

[Delta Victor]

Im having trouble opening a file from a educational program that I
bought. The instructions that came with the CD said the files are
PowerPoint driven and that you must have a PC and "one of the many
versions of Powerpoint" installed. "Preferred version is PowerPoint
2000".

I tried to open the file using my Office:Mac with no sucess. I get a
message "Powerpoint is opening file ___.exe" then a error message
"PowerPoint cannot open the file ___.exe The file may be corrupt, in
use, or of a type not recognized by powerpoint"

Any ideas??

 

[Walter Miller]

I have the same problem and error message trying to open an old Mac PPT
Version 4 (from 1996) file using Mac Office 2004, though it opens fine with
Mac Office 2001...

 

[Phil the Fish]

Im having trouble opening a file from a educational program that I
bought. The instructions that came with the CD said the files are
PowerPoint driven and that you must have a PC and "one of the many
versions of Powerpoint" installed. "Preferred version is PowerPoint
2000".

I tried to open the file using my Office:Mac with no sucess. I get a
message "Powerpoint is opening file ___.exe" then a error message
"PowerPoint cannot open the file ___.exe The file may be corrupt, in
use, or of a type not recognized by powerpoint"

Any ideas??

I use powerpoint to launch a number of .exe files ..BUT they must be for Mac
.... If they are for windows then you will get a loading error (and visa
versa), sounds to me like your trying to do the latter (the hint being that
your told you need a PC) :-(

If you have cross platform access then the same files should then load on a
wintel machine -- I often have to place two different html links clearly
marked for .exe file... One for mac users, and the other for windows, as my
lectures need to be able to run on both....

Phil

 

[Mickey Stevens]

This is a limitation of PowerPoint X & 2004. It lacks the ability to open
PowerPoint 3 and PowerPoint 4 files. You could try using the PowerPoint
Viewer in Classic to run these files.
<http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00153.htm>

If you have a copy of Office 98 or 2001, you could use that to save them in
the current format. Just open the presentation, go to File > Save As, and
save the file as a regular Presentation under a new name. You should be
able to open that with the most recent versions of PowerPoint.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Im having trouble opening a file from a educational program that I
bought. The instructions that came with the CD said the files are
PowerPoint driven and that you must have a PC and "one of the many
versions of Powerpoint" installed. "Preferred version is PowerPoint
2000".

I tried to open the file using my Office:Mac with no sucess.

"A Mac is not a typewriter", as the old saying goes.

And it's not a PC either. At least not an Intel PC, and that's what they meant
by "PC" in this case.

EXE files are Windows executable code. They don't work on Macs, other than
under VPC/Windows.



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[Phil the Fish]

EXE files are Windows executable code. They don't work on Macs, other than
under VPC/Windows.

Uuumm ... Yes and NO

In the pure context of computer code --- then yes, .exe PC / windows only...
BUT, and its a big but.... a number of the educational publishers (and the
original post was about educational software) produce self contained
animations, movies etc, which have an end .exe tag, even if they are not PC,
but are say a flash package for Mac .... McGraw-Hill are a very good example
of a publisher who operate just such a practice, just go and have a look at
some of their CD's, which is what I was trying to explain in my earlier
post....

Phil

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

EXE files are Windows executable code. They don't work on Macs, other than

Uuumm ... Yes and NO

In the pure context of computer code --- then yes, .exe PC / windows only...
BUT, and its a big but.... a number of the educational publishers (and the
original post was about educational software) produce self contained
animations, movies etc, which have an end .exe tag,

I had no idea. Neat trick and thanks for letting me know.

It gets easier and easier to make the cross-platform jump but harder and harder
to explain what will and won't work. ;-)

Life was harder but explaining was easier back in the bad old days.