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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2008File size – too large to open?
A novice colleague built a 123MB presentation. I’ve already explained he should never do that … make it a series of smaller files. Too late however … now we can’t open it. He was adding (yet another) picture file when it seized up … dialog box told him to close the file as something was “incompatible” (that’s all he remembers). He tried to print, but only half the slides would (printer memory limitation?). Now when we try to open it, we get “Powerpoint can’t open the type of file represented by …” Even though it has a .ppt extension, PP does not recognize it … is that because the file is so huge? Is there any way to break it into smaller parts now and recover it? Can we somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long shots, but I’ve got to try! Thanks! Too late for this presentation but you might like to make sure that "fast save" is NOT enabled. One thing worth trying is to open a blank presenation and try to "insert slides from file" (using the corrupt file as source)  SignatureAmazing PPT Hints, Tips and Tutorials http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk http://www.technologytrish.co.uk email john AT technologytrish.co.uk > A novice colleague built a 123MB presentation. I’ve already explained he > should never do that … make it a series of smaller files. Too late however … [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long > shots, but I’ve got to try! Thanks! Wish it was better news, but thanks. Was it in fact the file size? For future reference, is there a maximum size to be kept in mind? Appreciate your help ... > Too late for this presentation but you might like to make sure that "fast > save" is NOT enabled. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long > > shots, but I’ve got to try! Thanks! > Wish it was better news, but thanks. Was it in fact the file size? For > future reference, is there a maximum size to be kept in mind? There may be but I think it's considerably over the size of your problem file. Still, there's the "All those eggs in one basket" aspect to it, so your advice re breaking up the file is *very good*. Anyhow, start here and read the next few entries: Corrupted or unopenable PPT files http://www.pptfaq.com/index.html#name_Corrupted_or_unopenable_PPT_files Appreciate > your help ... > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long > > > shots, but Iâve got to try! Thanks! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ i can repare it for you upload it to some uploadserver like megauload i will be discrete with the content off course i shall reduce the filesize and send it back to megaupload you can contact me at maxwijgergangs@hotmail.com kind regards, max. >A novice colleague built a 123MB presentation. I've already explained he > should never do that . make it a series of smaller files. Too late [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > long > shots, but I've got to try! Thanks! |
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