Opening Old Powerpoint Files With Office 2007

[Digitalbanana]

I get the message below when trying to open old documents saved in earlier versions of Office when using Office 2007 ... any one know a fix? i cnnot get any luck Googling this problem..

"Powerpoint cant read the outline from H:\....... No text converter is

installed for this file type."

[Guest Reimar]

Could you please upload and post an sample so we can try to find out what's the problem?

Thanks for that.

[Digitalbanana]

Thanks for reply, I cannot upload files at this stage as the data on them is private ... I will try and test one of a myriad of Powerpoint Repair Tools that seem to infest the Internet at inflated prices and see if that works first...will report back the results ..

[JoeThePoster]

Have you tried exporting them to PDF?

[JohnC]

This was a common problem with all the programmes in the office 2007 Office Suite as they can read backwords (normally) but anyone with a previous version can not read 2007 (obvious) I am led to believe there is a small download from microsoft that adapts the new office suite thereby making your documents readable by an earlier version. I know your problem is not quite the same in that you should be able to open any documents saved in a previous office format , but it might be worth the try.

[Digitalbanana]

This was a common problem with all the programmes in the office 2007 Office Suite as they can read backwords (normally) but anyone with a previous version can not read 2007 (obvious) I am led to believe there is a small download from microsoft that adapts the new office suite thereby making your documents readable by an earlier version. I know your problem is not quite the same in that you should be able to open any documents saved in a previous office format , but it might be worth the try.

Hi, yeah thats not the problem... I have been going thro some old folders on my HD at work, 4 or 5 years old data, full of old power point files saved in ppt format from Office 2003 or earlier.... many of them wont open in Office 2007 or even 2003 which I have a copy of on another PC and since tried.

I just tried a Power Point repair program Nucleus-Kernel-PowerPoint on net that works in demo mode... but hel_l if I am going to pay for something Microsoft cannot open and a third party repair program can having already spent my money on Office....

If you copy paste my original post error message in Google it seems others have same problems... but no solution yet.. I'll work on it.

[Tywais]

It sounds as though they may have become corrupted at some point. I just tested a ppt file I have that is nearly 10 years old and created with Office 97 and no problems at all opening it in Office 2007.

[Joost]

You should install this patch http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

But you need your old version of office though. When installed open the original file in office 2003 (or another earlier version of office) and save it in the format office 2007 accepts.

You could try to use open office as converter, but i am not sure if that works...

[webfact]

It sounds as though they may have become corrupted at some point. I just tested a ppt file I have that is nearly 10 years old and created with Office 97 and no problems at all opening it in Office 2007.

Can confirm that! No problem to open. The file I opened was only 8y old.

I trust corrupted files cause this issue.