Viewing PPt 2007 in PPt 2003

As a presentation specialist at a large corporation, I am dealing with the issues of transitioning from PPt 2003 to PPt 2007 company wide as employees on both versions are exchanging files. There seems to be this impression that as long as an ...

Message posted on the April 7th, 2009 - 1:30 PM ET

File validation in Office 2003 and 2007

Introduced in Office 2010, the file validation function will soon be made available in Office 2003 and 2007 through an update.

News published on the December 15th, 2010 - 2:21 PM ET

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PPT 2007 runs PPT 2003 slides slowly

When I run a slide show created in PPT 2003 in PPT 2007, the slide graphics (ie., 'typewriter', fades, etc) are unbearably slow most of the time, although they run reasonably well some of the time - albeit rarely. Will I have to save them in PP ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2010 - 12:54 PM ET

Bullets in PPT 2003

Bullet / paragraph indentation (I believe) in ppt 2003 applies to the whole text box, not just a specific paragraph / bullet point. I think this has been changed in ppt 2007 (thank you MS), but is there a work around for us unlucky ones still using ...

Message posted on the April 26th, 2010 - 4:43 AM ET

Differences in rendering of text box between PPT 2003 and 2007

I have a simple text box that looks different in PPT 2003 editor than it does in PPT 2007. Go here: http://www.mediafire.com/?4jzmm0mh3q3 to get a .ppt file containing a slide that contains the text box. On that slide, you'll also find two ...

Message posted on the January 9th, 2009 - 2:09 PM ET

PPT 2003 presentation with 2010?

Hello, I have ppt 2003 and am currently working on a new presentation. Also, I plan to build a new system soon, Windows 7/64 and install MS office 2010 (probably the OEM version, although I haven't checked prices yet.) Questions: 1. Will my ...

Message posted on the November 14th, 2010 - 9:51 AM ET

PPt 2007: Dealing with gradient colors compared to PPt 2003

I'm starting to get comfortable with the new PPt 2007 way of creating gradients, but there is one thing I miss from the PPt 2003 process that I haven't found a way to duplicate in PPt 2007. In PPt 2003 I could acquire the dark shade of a color by ...

Message posted on the April 7th, 2009 - 2:26 PM ET

Install PPT 2003 on Vista when PPT 2007 already installed?

I have a Vista laptop that came with PPT 2007 installed. Since there are some features from the old PPT 2003 that I miss, I was wondering whether I can install my old 2003 version on my new Vista computer and still keep PPT 2007, which is the ...

Message posted on the December 29th, 2009 - 1:08 PM ET

Powerpoint 2007 is converting PPT 2003 videos into pictures

I opened a PPT 2003 presentation containing a number wmv videos in Powerpoint 2007 to make some minor revisions. When I tried to save the presentation, the program converted all of the videos into pictures. I tried saving in both the current and an ...

Message posted on the January 18th, 2010 - 11:03 AM ET

One annoying differences with PPT 2003

Hello Mr Microsoft. A keyboark shortcut I use a lot in Word, Outlook and PPT is Ctrl+Backspace to erase the word I am currently writing. Every applications I know where Ctrl+Backspace can be used will erase the word beind typed but not the space ...

Message posted on the August 20th, 2009 - 8:31 AM ET

PPT 2007 to PPT 2003 conversion inflates file size

I have a 10mb ppt 2007 file and need to convert it down to ppt 2003 file. When I do this the file size is inflated to 101mb. If I understand correctly, the .jpg files are converted to bmp's when it's converted down, which inflates the file size. ...

Message posted on the June 5th, 2009 - 11:38 AM ET

PPT 2003 Files Sizes

I imported a Word Outline file (54kb; Heading 1 for Title; Heading 2 for Content) of Chinese text into PPT 2003 to make a new PPT file of white background. Soon I found out the file is so large that Yahoo Mail would not attach, I then tried saving ...

Message posted on the November 4th, 2009 - 10:44 PM ET

Video Not Playing Correctly in PPT 2003

I have a video in PPT 2003 that is showing a black box with audio only. I tried the MCI player test per Austin Meyers using the Run mplayer2.exe and it works. It does launch a dialog that says Windows Media Player but this is different from the ...

Message posted on the October 13th, 2009 - 10:49 AM ET