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Ellen D - 18 Feb 2007 17:29 GMT

I created the show on the desktop in Power Point 2003 and got the "package"
onto CD, but it would not autorun on the laptop, so I managed to get just the
show itself onto the laptop desktop, where I opened it with Power Point 2000,
which is what I have on the laptop. It loaded very, very slowly (the show
itself is 645mb, maybe that's why ?) but once it loaded I was able to go
through the show without any problems.

Because the loading was so slow and I was getting "low on virtual memory"
messages, I closed the show and hoped to speed things up by emptying the temp
folder, defragging, and using clean disc. Now Power Point 2000 sends a
message saying it cannot open this file ! I did not touch this file as far as
I know, and the file extension is sill there.I've tried opening from the desk
top, from within Power Point, and from the disc. No luck - and my meeting
deadline is coming up ! What to do ?

I just asked this question as part of a reply to my earlier post (asking how
to burn power point show onto cd), but I think this new problem is worth a
new thread. I am not at all savvy about anything "under the hood" on
computers. I hope someone can help. Thank you so much.

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Echo S - 18 Feb 2007 17:57 GMT

Recover a Corrupt PowerPoint File
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA011168781033.aspx?pid=CH062556591033

For future reference, see How to prevent PowerPoint file corruption
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA011168771033.aspx?pid=CH010036301033

And I hate to keep harping on the same thing, but you really really need to
figure out why this file is so large and decrease its size. See

Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00062.htm

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>I created the show on the desktop in Power Point 2003 and got the "package"
> onto CD, but it would not autorun on the laptop, so I managed to get just
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> new thread. I am not at all savvy about anything "under the hood" on
> computers. I hope someone can help. Thank you so much.

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Ellen D - 19 Feb 2007 20:48 GMT

Thank you Echo, the information below is very helpful. Since I still had the
original presentation on disc, your talk of corrupt files gave me the idea of
simply re-copying the presentation file onto the laptop, where it replaced
the corrupt one. Power Point 2000 now opens it, slowly but surely, as before.
I also realized that on the laptop Power Point I had never turned off "allow
fast saves", so I did this before closing the presentation. I have now opened
and closed it several times, so I think everything is o.k. My guess is the
file got corrupted when I closed it the first time with fast save enabled,
and the problem had nothing to do with cleaning the disc. Ellen

> Recover a Corrupt PowerPoint File
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA011168781033.aspx?pid=CH062556591033
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> > new thread. I am not at all savvy about anything "under the hood" on
> > computers. I hope someone can help. Thank you so much.

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Echo S - 20 Feb 2007 02:25 GMT

I'm glad to hear you had a "clean" copy of the file.

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> Thank you Echo, the information below is very helpful. Since I still had
> the
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>> > new thread. I am not at all savvy about anything "under the hood" on
>> > computers. I hope someone can help. Thank you so much.

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