Thanks for the advice and offer to review the problem slides! In the meantime
I have found an Office 2003 license and installed PPT 2003, and guess what,
the saved-as-PPT2003-slides work pretty much as to be expected (and with the
text, that was my problem) - they just to not work under PPT2003 Viewer!
So I am taking this question off the list, it could be everything is ok, and
there is just a compatibliltiy problem for 2003 Viewer only.
"Echo S" wrote:
> When "round-tripping," you don't need to save to a webserver -- just save to
> your harddrive (My Documents or Desktop or something).
>
> Anyway, if you don't have 2003 around anymore, that is a hard thing to do!
> :-) (PPT 2007's Save As HTML isn't necessarily as accurate as 2003's is, so
> I wouldn't trust it to do what you want here.
>
> If you'll send me a few slides that exhibit the problems, I'm happy to
> round-trip them here and see if that resolves the problem. If you'd include
> a note to remind me of why you're sending me the slides, that would be
> helpful. :-) Email address to send to is echos at indy dot net
>
> --
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> What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
> Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
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> > Despite the very educational advice I have recieved on this site, I still
> > cannot get my slides that originated in PPT2007 to display in the 2003 or
> > 2007 viewer, also not when I save the files as 97-2003 format first.
> > Also, new slides that I make in 2003 Compatibility Mode in PPT2007 (I no
> > longer have 2003 running here) do not show the text in the viewers.
> > I made the text by typing the content placeholders (created in my master
> > slide) (if this helps).
> > Echo S suggested "roundtripping" to look for problems but I could not
> > create
> > a webpage in PPT2007 as instructed since it seems that the save as web
> > format
> > only comes up if in PPT2007 you choose save in...and select a web address.
> > Since I do not have access to a webserver I cannot put an appropriate
> > address
> > in and the system therefore does not present any web formats for
> > selection.
> > So I cannot round trip.
> >
> > I am wondering if this is a bug. Or do PPT 2007 presentations display
> > properly in the viewer(s) for everyone else? How do you put your text in?
>
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