Unable to Save As or Create New Folder

[BombadilNM]

I have bunches of PowerPoint files for Tax-Aide, which I received on a
CD. I copied them to my HD, and changed permissions to r+w from
read-only.
Still, when I open a file and make changes, I am unable to save; I am
told that the file is read-only. If I try to save as a new name, the
"save" button AND the "New folder" button on the dialog box are grayed
out. What gives?
And, to boot, Microsoft apparently no longer has any free online help
for Mac products!
Anybody else have these problems OR can shed some light on them?
Thanks,
tommaso

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Can you get in touch with the Tax-Aide people and ask whether these PPT
files happen to have been created on a PC and include embedded fonts?



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[BombadilNM]

Sure can. The CD had some Word files, too, but they're not
misbehaving as are the PP files. Would a font issue affect Word, too?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I don't know; it's just a wild speculation, really. See, in the latest
version of PPT/Windows, the PPT becomes read-only if it contains an embedded
font that you don't also have on your system and the font is edit-only
embeddable. When this happens, it acts exactly like what you're seeing.
That makes me wonder whether there's some code in the Mac version that
doesn't belong.

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[BombadilNM]

I'm in NM, and the CD apparently was authored in FL, and I'm not sure
by what route it ended up in my hands. I suspect it was created on a
Windoze machine. If what you suspect is true, then there is no
workaround for my problem, then, eh? I wanted to correct some typos
and tailor the presentation for my cadre. Oh, well.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I'm in NM, and the CD apparently was authored in FL, and I'm not sure
by what route it ended up in my hands. I suspect it was created on a
Windoze machine. If what you suspect is true, then there is no
workaround for my problem, then, eh? I wanted to correct some typos
and tailor the presentation for my cadre. Oh, well.

Try opening it in an older version of PPT if you have one available, or on
Windows PPT 2002 or prior.
At least the earlier win versions aren't quite so stiff about this font biz
and would let you substitute a font you have for the embedded one and then
resave.

If one of them's small and non-proprietary, I wouldn't mind having a go at
it for you. I'm curious to see if this really is the problem.
If so, it's certainly a bug in the Mac version and should be reported.

 

[BombadilNM]

I have just tried it on a Windows machine, with PP XP, and it won't
allow me to save as a different name OR change the attribute from
read-only to something else.
I'd be glad to send you a file to look at. These were
free-distribution discs at our Tax-Aide seminar last week, so I don't
think there's a problem sending it to you. To where do I send it?
tommaso
(e-mail address removed)

 

[BombadilNM]

Ooops, hold the phone!
I was reading from the CD when I tried that.
Once I copied to the HD, it DID allow me to change the attribute, and
I WAS able to save the file with changes.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ooopsie. <g>

Oh well. Fixed is fixed, even if it's a little embarassing. So ... assuming
this is about the adventures on the PC, does copying to the HDD on the Mac
solve the problem there too, or had you already tried that? Or is this
message ABOUT the Mac and it's all fixed there too?

In any case, it seems normal that it'd open a file marked by the OS as
read-only AS read-only but it should let you save the file to a writeable
drive using Save-As. If it's not doing that, I'm curious to know why.


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[BombadilNM]

Oh, yes, I had tried the copy to HD and change properties to read and
write on the Mac, but was not able to save as a new name. So it
appears that the PP for Mac is behaving quite differently than the PP
for Windoze.