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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2007PPT 2007
Hello, If I upgrade to PPT 2007 will it change any of the slides I already have in my presentations in PPT 2003? I have more than 90 presentations and many have complex animations and I do not want them to change at all. Running Win XP. Thank you. The short answer: it may. You may want to keep both versions on your PC as you make the transition. See also: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102037031033.aspx  SignatureThanks, Glenna Shaw Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team http://www.pptmagic.com > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Thank you. Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. 1. If I install 2007, does it give me an option to keep 2003? If it's tricky to do I don't want to risk it. 2. Does it overwrite all the presentations when installed? So, I guess my question is, how do I install 2007 and preserve my old slides and formatting? Thank you. > The short answer: it may. > You may want to keep both versions on your PC as you make the transition. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Thank you. When you install 2007 it will automatically set the file extensions to open using 2007. This means if you click on a PowerPoint file, it will open it with 2007. When a 2003 file opens in 2007, it will use compatibility mode to make it compatible with 2003. It won't change anything unless you specifically click to edit the item (such as graphs) in the 2003 file and there's no going back to a pure 2003 file once you say ok to change it. This isn't neccessarily a bad thing and in many instances it improves the presentation. I'd probably make back ups of my 2003 files onto an external source (just a suggestion). SignatureThanks, Glenna Shaw Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team http://www.pptmagic.com > Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > > > > Thank you. Thank you. That was very helpful. > When you install 2007 it will automatically set the file extensions to open > using 2007. This means if you click on a PowerPoint file, it will open it [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > > > > > > > Thank you. In addition, make sure you install a Windows-certified printer driver on the computer (not on a network). Without it, we've seen reports of things shifting on slides and other oddball display issues. The printer driver resolves this stuff. See PowerPoint 2007 text editing slow, text cut off, text display or formatting problems, print, crash problems http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm (You'll find a link on that page to instructions for installing a Windows-certified printer driver.) SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm (New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html > Thank you. That was very helpful. > [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >> > > > >> > > > Thank you. In addition to what Glenna said, when you install Office 2007, use the custom installation option. There you can tell the installer to keep the previous versions. You'll have to choose one or the other version of Outlook, though, because you can only have one version of it installed on a computer. (I like Outlook 2007 just fine -- better than 2003, actually -- but I admit I am not an Outlook power-user by any stretch of the imagination!) SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm (New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html > Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> > >> > Thank you. > Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. > > 1. If I install 2007, does it give me an option to keep 2003? If it's tricky > to do I don't want to risk it. In addition to what Glenna's said ... Ah. Echo's said it already. Nevermind. But ... Another approach, if you have a computer with enough oomph to support it, is to install 2007 into a virtual machine. Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00819.htm ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thanks everyone for the very helpful advice. > > Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ Steve, If I install VPC to test out PPT 2007 how much RAM would you allocate. I have 4GB on my computer. Thank you. >> Well, that makes me nervous. Let me ask you about keeping both versions. >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ I have 2G, and 512MB for a VPC worked best for me. I originally allocated 1G, and it was almost unbearable. Not sure what to do with 4G, although this FAQ might help: Using Virtual PC / VMWare virtual computers http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00819.htm SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm (New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html > Steve, > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >> PPTools: www.pptools.com >> ================================================ 1G was unbearable. Do you mean your host was too slow? >I have 2G, and 512MB for a VPC worked best for me. I originally allocated >1G, and it was almost unbearable. Not sure what to do with 4G, although [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >>> PPTools: www.pptools.com >>> ================================================ Rich, > If I install VPC to test out PPT 2007 how much RAM would you allocate. I > have 4GB on my computer. The advice I've read (and it seems to have worked out for me too) is to limit it to 512mb or so. > Thank you. > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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