ok, here is the "kick in the crotch" I could not save it in SO powerpoint, so i created a new presentation, copy and pasted all the slides to the new presentation, and it saved with no problem.
On Monday 03 February 2003 01:20 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:57 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Pradeor, > > > > Had a real PowderPoint file I edited and tried to save about 6 months > > ago, To get it to save I had to first save it in Star Office's format. > > Then close the file Open it and then I could save it as a power point, I > > don't know why it did this. I've never been able to repeat it. It just > > did. The only other thing I can think of is that SO is opened under > > user A and user B is the owner of the directory. (I've done this a > > number of times) SO doesn't give good error messages in this case and > > the results you are getting are the same as in the case I mentioned. > > Tried the option with opening it in SO6 and without starting the > presentation trying to save as PowerPoint. Error! > > There is only one defined user (apart from the usual crowd: root, > news, nobody, etc.) and the original file as well as the tearget > directory are both in this user's home. > > All I tried so far resulted in the same error as the original poster > described. I created another presentation with exactly the same amount > of slides and a lot of images (no meaningful contents just a dummy > file) and had no trouble to save it as PowerPoint file. > > Must be something in the file. Strange! > > wobo
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