PPTools
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FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations
Optimizer saves disk space and bandwidth, shrinks your PowerPoint presentations to the right size for email, screenshow or printing
PPT2HTML gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements
Prep4PDF preserves interactivity in PowerPoint presentations when you convert to PDF
Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to JPG, PNG, GIF, WMF and more
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Possible causes:
You use PowerPoint 2003 but haven't updated it
- From the main menu bar, choose Help, Check for Updates
- This takes you to The MS Office Online Downloads page
- Near the top of the page, you'll see a "Check for Updates" link under the Office Update headline. Click it.
- Install the "Office 2003 Critical Update: KB828041"
Note: If you have disabled Online Content, Check for Updates won't work. To re-enable it:
- Choose Help, Customer Feedback Options
- Click Online Content in the list on the left
- Put a checkmark next to "Show content and links from Microsoft Office Online"
- Click OK
- Quit and restart PowerPoint. Help, Check for Updates should now take you to the correct web site
The file is corrupted
PowerPoint files can be corrupted in a variety of ways. See Don't use PowerPoint for anything serious until you've done this for a dose of recommended preventive medicine.
It's also good practice to ZIP PowerPoint files before emailing them, if possible.
See Recovering a corrupt presentation for some possible workarounds.
The file was created in PowerPoint 2002/XP and password protected
See PowerPoint 2002 (XP) vs PPT2000/PPT97 incompatibilities
Only PowerPoint 2002/XP or later can open these files. Have the creator open and resave the file without a password.
The file's on a network drive and is open in a Mac version of PowerPoint
We ran into this problem when we had a file open in Mac PowerPoint X and tried to open it also in PowerPoint 2003 (from the same network shared folder). After we closed the file on the Mac, there was no problem opening it in PowerPoint on the PC.
If PowerPoint displays only part of your chosen file for [FILENAME] see Editing the Open action for PPT (and other) files
Another possible cause of problems: according to the IE.TXT file shipped with MS Internet Explorer 5:
"If you install Internet Explorer 5 as part of Microsoft Office 2000 and then uninstall Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft PowerPoint may be unable to open certain files. To correct this, reinstall Internet Explorer 5."
We'd guess that installing a later version of Internet Explorer would work as well, but it might be safest to install 5 then upgrade to a later version if desired.
If the message you see is
PPT2003 - Can't access [filename] because the filename is invalid
then please see PPT2003 - Can't access [filename] because the filename is invalid.
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