Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have
documents prepared in Microsoft Powerpoint 97-2004 that I am unable to
open using Powerpoint from Office 2008. Prompt tells me documents may be
corrupt or not a type recognized by Powerpoint. From research I see that
font type can be a problem. Is there a way I can get this document to
open on my Mac?
Hi,
If you think a font problem might be the root of the problem, use Font
Book, an application that comes with MacOS, to resolve font conflicts.
There are other third party applications favored by some people for this
purpose.
If these documents were emailed to you then perhaps they were damaged in
transit by a mail server or email program. Those problems would be hard
to fix. You'd need to get the originals and zip them or use some other
method (use SkyDrive or some other online file distribution system).
It could be something as simple as the files don't have the .ppt file
extension. Make sure the file extension is there.
-Jim
