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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2007Query about powerpoint .ppx program
Hi I wonder if anybody can help me with this problem, my friend sent me a PowerPoint .ppx file and my Office XP Pro Powerpoint program can't read it, even though I have the full Office program installed, so my question is why can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't contain this program? I guess it's a PPTX, which was created with PowerPoint 2007. But you can download and install the free Compatibility Pack, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941b3470 -3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466, to view and edit files in the new format. Best regards, Ute  SignatureUte Simon Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team Schon gesehen? www.ppt-user.de/blogger und www.ppt-tv.de > Hi I wonder if anybody can help me with this problem, my friend sent me a > PowerPoint .ppx file and my Office XP Pro Powerpoint program can't read [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't > contain this program? Hi Ute Simon, Thank you so much for the fast reply and I'll go and download that program as think the whole program maybe a bit much for my laptop. If could give you gratitude proints would heap a bundle on your right now as my friend is doing a computer course and she wants my opinion on this presentation and my program won't even recognise it as a PowerPoint program. Thanks again Chocreaper > I guess it's a PPTX, which was created with PowerPoint 2007. But you can > download and install the free Compatibility Pack, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't > > contain this program? You might also want to ask your friend to save a ppt file which he/she can easily do with 2007. You will then be able to open it without the compat pack SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials- http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > Hi Ute Simon, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't > > > contain this program? Hi John, Thanks and I will ask her to do that next time but think she had forgotten that I hadn't got the 2007 version as I'd been talking about getting it but then found it needs a broadband connection and had been planning to put it on my more powerful desktop which has no net connection so looks as if my idea of putting it on there is out if it needs that connection but I downloaded the pack Ute Simon told me about and works brilliantly and now means don't have to worry if she does forget as know it will open it now. Thank you to all of you as you've been so helpful, I'm not all that computer savvy only learnt from the problems had with my desktop(hard drive kept crashing due to fdisk error after a windows automatic update to media player 11 which had major conflict with my Sonic burning program and got so fed up with it repeating this error and then starting to say it was restoring my registry from older file that last time they changed the hard drive took net off and left it for games and other programs) so have learnt a few things from this computer but still learning and visting and asking questions on sites like this one is teaching me a lot so once again thanks for all your help and mentally giving out gratitude points to all of you :-) Thanks, Chocreaper > You might also want to ask your friend to save a ppt file which he/she can > easily do with 2007. You will then be able to open it without the compat pack [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > > > can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't > > > > contain this program? Also can anybody give me advise on whether I can use Office 2007 student version on my laptop as it only has 512MB RAM, a 60GB harddrive with 47.3GB free space, XP Home(service pack 2) and has a starter packer broadband connection, which currently is giving me a 576kbps connection, but I'd also like to use this on my much more powerful desktop but that has no internet connection as I use it as a games/word/powerpoint kind of PC and keep laptop for Internet. Thanks in advance to anybody who has some advice for me. "Chocreaper" wrote: > Hi I wonder if anybody can help me with this problem, my friend sent me a > PowerPoint .ppx file and my Office XP Pro Powerpoint program can't read it, > even though I have the full Office program installed, so my question is why > can't it read it or is this file a new one in Office 2007 and mine doesn't > contain this program? > Also can anybody give me advise on whether I can use Office 2007 student > version on my laptop as it only has 512MB RAM, a 60GB harddrive with 47.3GB [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > connection as I use it as a games/word/powerpoint kind of PC and keep laptop > for Internet. Thanks in advance to anybody who has some advice for me. It should be fine ... it won't set any speed records, as I'm sure you know, but it'll run, unless there are problems with the graphics card. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply and I thought maybe it would be OK on here but as it's only got 512MB RAM I was bit concerned that the Office program would start off the Low on virtual memory if I was on the internet as well, the graphic card is an ATI 9200 so is fairly good not great but shows nice graphics for what I need it for. The thing is my desktop has 1GB RAM a 250GB hard drive, faster processor, ATI X1600 card but wanted it for the computer games Sims 2 and decided to take it off net and was hoping to put 2007 office on it but box description clearly states it needs a broadband connection to register and download programs so this throws out any chance of putting it on desktop as don't want a net connection on that one anymore. > > Also can anybody give me advise on whether I can use Office 2007 student > > version on my laptop as it only has 512MB RAM, a 60GB harddrive with 47.3GB [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Hi Steve, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > box description clearly states it needs a broadband connection to register > and download programs ??? I'm looking at the Ultimate box right now and don't see that. You need to Activate the software but that just requires an internet connection, not necessarily broadband. Or you can do it by phone. To get add'l help and use some other options, you'd want a network connection, but it's certainly not unusable w/o it. > so this throws out any chance of putting it on desktop > as don't want a net connection on that one anymore. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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