Opening PC created PowerPoint Files

[Jim Mahon]

I do safety training for an organization that contracts with
workplaces to pirovide Safety training and regularly am contracted to
provide training for them. The trainer has an option of doing the
training using overheads or PowerPoint. The slides and overheads are
constantly updated.

Using Office 2004 on my Mac I was told I needed to contact the
originator of the PowerPoint files and have them saved in an older
compatible version of PowerPoint ( or a message to that effect).

Now using Office 2008 I figured my problems were long gone. I cannot
begin to express my suprise when I went to open the same files I
opened and used to do training on a PC computer two weeks ago with
ease and got the following message on my Mac.

"This presentation is protected by a password or Digital Rights
Management (DRM) To access the presentation, you must have a version
that is not protected by a password or DRM. I have spoken to the
trining organization and they are scratching their heads.

Any suggestions? I know they open fine on a PC?

Mim Mahon

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

I do safety training for an organization that contracts with
workplaces to pirovide Safety training and regularly am contracted to
provide training for them. The trainer has an option of doing the
training using overheads or PowerPoint. The slides and overheads are
constantly updated.

Using Office 2004 on my Mac I was told I needed to contact the
originator of the PowerPoint files and have them saved in an older
compatible version of PowerPoint ( or a message to that effect).

Now using Office 2008 I figured my problems were long gone. I cannot
begin to express my suprise when I went to open the same files I
opened and used to do training on a PC computer two weeks ago with
ease and got the following message on my Mac.

"This presentation is protected by a password or Digital Rights
Management (DRM) To access the presentation, you must have a version
that is not protected by a password or DRM. I have spoken to the
trining organization and they are scratching their heads.

Any suggestions? I know they open fine on a PC?

Mim Mahon

Hi Jim,

Try opening the presentations with OpenOffice, which is a free program
http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice supports some password protection (you'll need the password,
of course). Once you have opened the presentation in OpenOffice you can
work with it there or save it (without a password) in PowerPoint 2004
(use 97-2003) format.

-Jim

 

[Matt Centurión [MSFT]]

You could also ask the creators of the Presentation to save their PPT
presentation without Digital Rights Management protections or passwords
which will allow you to open them.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft