Can't Open a Power Point Pres. in Office for Mac (2004 Student and Teacher Edition)

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pop.up.book@gmail.com - 26 Sep 2006 04:51 GMT

Hello, I'm having a problem opening a Power Point presentation in
Office for Mac 2004 Student and Teacher Edition. My prof. posts all of
the P.P. slides from his lectures on-line from a PC and I can't open
them. I don't know what version HE has, so I don't know if anyone can
help. I've tried e-mailing him and have no response so far. I assume
the problem is that he's using an older version of P.P? Anyway, any
help would be appreciated, because I really need the info from the
slides. The test is tomorrow!

The error message I'm getting says:

Powerpoint can not open the type of file represented by Macintosh
HD:Users:********:Desktop:filename.ppt.

Thanks!

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CyberTaz - 26 Sep 2006 23:13 GMT

It's possible that the slideshows are intended to run as web presentations
rather than be opened as PPt files. How have you tried to "open" them?
Perhaps just dbl-clking will enable them to run in your browser.

If not, post back with more detail. BTW - PPt 2004 should open just about
any other version if it is a live file.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 9/25/06 11:51 PM, in article
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> Hello, I'm having a problem opening a Power Point presentation in
> Office for Mac 2004 Student and Teacher Edition. My prof. posts all of
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> Thanks!

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