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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2008The selected file does not appear to be a valid Microsoft Office P
Hi, I get this message when I try to open a PowerPoint file that was created with office 95 -97 in office 2007. I can still open this file with office 2003 (pre sp3) as SP3 creates blocking of file types from previous versions. Is this still an issue in office 2007, and if so how to allow earlier versions to be opened. Cheers! Glenn If I recall correctly, PPT 2007 will not open PPT 95-format files. 2003 (pre SP3, as you are aware) will, though, so open the files in 2003 and re-save them as regular PowerPoint (2003-format) files. 2003 has an option to save as "97-2003 & 95" format. That "and 95" part wll get you. Just save it as a regular PowerPoint file, which in 2003 is really the equivalent of a 97-2003 format (without the "and 95" part), and which all versions except PPT 95 can open. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to correct me if that's not right.  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://tinyurl.com/36grcd PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx > Hi, > I get this message when I try to open a PowerPoint file that was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Glenn AsEcho said If you already have SP3 in 2003 you can get it to open earlier files in the registry by navigating to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileOpenBlock and changing the "FilesbeforePowerPoint97" DWord to 00000000 SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > Hi, > I get this message when I try to open a PowerPoint file that was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Glenn Dear John, lease read what I posted in other posts concerning opening office 95 in office 2007 respectivly powerpoint 95 in powerpoint 2007. If You as MVP have the chance to discuss this with Microsoft: we users do URGENTLY NEED a converter-pack making it able to 1. view elder files and 2. convert them for further use. Without any elder version of office and without restrictions. As I wrote there in the other posts: companies do have any former document inside any archiv in elder office-file-versions. We cannot convert thousands of files by hand merely for ensuring we can open them in the future. Besides: the reg-key You mention is what I miss in 2007. The ADM-Files for 2007 give the oportunity to block some file-types, beside others the older office-files. But the contrary is not supported: even if I deactivate these settings, I still cannot open powerpoint95-files in 2007. Thousands of files in my company would be inaccessible when we would upgrade from 2003 to 2007. Please let us know when Microsoft enables us to upgrade to 2007 by giving us access to our elder files ;-)) Thanks in advance. > AsEcho said > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > Glenn Honestly, you'll be better off looking for a different solution than waiting and hoping for MS to update PowerPoint 2007 to do what you want. These are files from 12-year-old software (and who knows how many times they've been updated previously). Realistically, how long can you expect any software company to support previous versions? There'd be no need to do the conversions manually. You could relatively easily write or have written for you a macro that opens every file in a folder in, say, 2003, then saves it back out in 2003 format so that 2007 will open it from then on. After checking the files in 2007, it might be wise to convert them to 2007 using a similar macro. There's some example code here: Batch re-save presentations; update older presentations to newer PowerPoint version http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00740.htm > Dear John, lease read what I posted in other posts concerning opening office > 95 in office 2007 respectivly powerpoint 95 in powerpoint 2007. If You as MVP [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > > > > > Glenn ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thanks for the link! I´ll try the scripting. hmm-guess, You´r right. But I learnd the most in my life from paper containing information elder than 12 years that i first must learn to live in a world where information elder than a decade runs off automaticly ;-)) > Honestly, you'll be better off looking for a different solution than waiting and > hoping for MS to update PowerPoint 2007 to do what you want. These are files from [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Thanks for the link! I´ll try the scripting. > hmm-guess, You´r right. But I learnd the most in my life from paper > containing information elder than 12 years that i first must learn to live in > a world where information elder than a decade runs off automaticly ;-)) Alas, it's a different world now. This new information has no respect for its elders. ;-) ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================
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