Powerpoint for Mac crashes with PC file

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johntippins@mac.com - 22 Jun 2006 16:14 GMT

Tried to open a ppt file created on a PC. The file contained a slide
with two large scanned images. When clicking through the slides
Powerpoint crashed when it attempted to open this slide. When trying to
open slide sorter view, Powerpoint crashed.

Imported the file into Keynote and it opened OK. Reduced the size of
the scanned images and put them back into the Keynote file, exported
the file as a ppt file and then it opened OK in Powerpoint and didn't
crash.

How do I avoid having to do this every time? Just use Keynote instead?

iMac G5, 1GB RAM, OS 10.4.6; Powerpoint 11.2.4

Thanks.

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Andrew Chiang [MSFT] - 22 Jun 2006 20:27 GMT

Hello,

If you could post or email me a copy of a file where you're hitting the
crash so that we can investigate, that'd be great. Also, if you could
indicate what version of PowerPoint for Windows it was created with and what
versions saved to it, that'd be great as well.

To email me, remove the online. part after the @ sign.

Thanks,
Andrew

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> Tried to open a ppt file created on a PC. The file contained a slide
> with two large scanned images. When clicking through the slides
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> Thanks.

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Powerpoint for Mac crashes with PC file