James Knott wrote:
Russell Butler wrote:
K-L Associates wrote:
Hi
Recently, I had a viral attack on my pc and have decided to upgrade to
Microsoft 2007 Small Office suite, using the XP. Unfortunately, some
of my
old Powerpoint files seemed corrupted and could not be opened. These
might
have been created using Windows 95 or earlier.
Does anyone think that Open Office may let me open these and save in my
latest Powerpoint? If so, which version is best?
I would appreciate an early answer please so that I won't have to
recreate
these again from scratch.
Thanks.
Kwan Loo
Hi
There have been many reports over the years of OOo being able to open
MS files which MS Office hasn't been able to.
I suggest you make a copy of the offending files, then try opening
them with OOo 3.0 (or 3.0.1 which is in RC2 stage). Note: OOo will
not save in the MSO 2007 formats. It will save in 97/2000/XP format.
It can also save in Office 2003 formats.
Here is something I have found out about MS Office and the older file
formats.
MS Office, the newest versions, have big problems with their own older
file formats.
I had some old MS Office files from Win 95/98 days and none were able to
be used
with the current version of MS Office. ALSO, you are told that you can
save your
files to those older formats for backwards compatibility, but that never
worked for me.
So it may not be your files but MS Office.
As for using them in OpenOffice.org, they worked for me, and then I
converted them
to OOo formats.
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