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Sherri D. - 26 Apr 2007 03:42 GMT

I did a slide presentation for a school project on Powerpoint 2007. I had to
save as 2003 version to send to my teacher. I opened this on a computer with
the 2003 version and my outline does not show up. The slides are there but
the outline is not. If I try to type the outline in it types over the slides
that are already there. Is there something I can do so that my outline will
be visible? I was hoping I didn't have to do this over in 2003 version. I
have never used either version so I really don't know much about either one.
thanks

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jrhx - 26 Apr 2007 06:56 GMT

For PowerPoint 2007 and 2003 have different format structure. If you save
2007 pptx file to ppt, some elements may be destroyed. For flash slide show
can obtain the powerpoint slide show structure and animations , transitions,
You can convert PowerPoint 2007 presentation to Flash to solve this problem.
Here is the tool:
http://www.sameshow.com/index.php?sid=4

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> I did a slide presentation for a school project on Powerpoint 2007. I had to
> save as 2003 version to send to my teacher. I opened this on a computer with
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> have never used either version so I really don't know much about either one.
> thanks

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Kathy Jacobs - 26 Apr 2007 17:55 GMT

Sherri,
My guess is that Steve's fix is what you need. But just to clarify:

If you save a 2007 file to the 97-2003 version, things won't be destroyed -
but some items will be frozen.

In many cases, you really don't even need to back save the file. There is a
converter available for PPT 2002 and PPT 2003 that will let those versions
open the new file structure. You might ask your teacher if they can download
the converters to the school computers.

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> For PowerPoint 2007 and 2003 have different format structure. If you save
> 2007 pptx file to ppt, some elements may be destroyed. For flash slide
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Ute Simon - 26 Apr 2007 07:00 GMT

I don't think this was caused by the conversion. Please make sure that the
computer with PPT 2003 gets all Updates, Service Pack 2 should solve the
problem.

Best regards,
Ute

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Steve Rindsberg - 26 Apr 2007 15:30 GMT

> I did a slide presentation for a school project on Powerpoint 2007. I had to
> save as 2003 version to send to my teacher. I opened this on a computer with
> the 2003 version and my outline does not show up. The slides are there but
> the outline is not. If I try to type the outline in it types over the slides
> that are already there.

So you can SEE the outline view on the 2003 computer, there's just no text in
it, is that right?

Was there text in the outline view when you created the presentation in 2007?

Since you mention that you're new to both versions, you may not know that its' a
very common new-user mistake to delete the "click here" boxes you get when you
insert a new slide. Those are the placeholders that "connect" the outline to
the slides. If you deleted them and added your own text boxes instead, that
would explain what you're seeing.

If so, you'll need to go to each slide, select the title text and copy/paste it
into the outline; then do the same for the body copy. As you've said, that'll
create new text boxes (that ARE linked to the outline). Then you can delete
your original text boxes.

I'd do this on a COPY of your original presentation.

> Is there something I can do so that my outline will
> be visible? I was hoping I didn't have to do this over in 2003 version. I
> have never used either version so I really don't know much about either one.
> thanks

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