PPT Update Problem

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Gene Burch - 25 Apr 2005 22:53 GMT

I'm running Office X under Mac OS 10.3.9 on a MDD DP G4.

I just installed the Office 10.1.6 Update.

When I attempt to open any PowerPoint presentation created with the
10.1.5 version, it refuses to open with the following error message:
PowerPoint cannot read Macintosh HD:Users:gene:desktop:Test.ppt.

Is there a fix for this problem or should I just revert to 10.1.5?

TIA

G

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Jim Gordon MVP - 26 Apr 2005 01:46 GMT

Hi,

Did you run Apple's Disk Utility to repair permissions after you did the
update? Try that and let us know how it went.

-Jim

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> I'm running Office X under Mac OS 10.3.9 on a MDD DP G4.
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Gene Burch - 26 Apr 2005 13:21 GMT

Thanks Jim ... that's the first thing that I did. It didn't do anything
to help.

G

> Hi,
>
> Did you run Apple's Disk Utility to repair permissions after you did the
> update? Try that and let us know how it went.
>
> -Jim

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Mike - 26 Apr 2005 11:49 GMT

I've had this happen too. I found that I could fix the file by saving
it in Powerpoint 2001. I chose to fix Powerpoint by going back to
10.1.5.

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