Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / March 2008

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