New to PowerPoint 2007 When You Go Back to School?

By: W.Peterson


On the first day of heading back to school this fall, you might be surprised with new Office 2007 running on all campus computers. It's pretty great to meet the new companion. But a little time later, you will find you're the newbie to Office 2007. As throughout improvement in new Office 2007, it may crash your Office life! The most probable-to-happen trouble is that you can not view or even open the PowerPoint 2007 presentations from your teachers with older visions of PowerPoint at home. That could be an emergency to your study. So what could you do with new PowerPoint 2007?

Solution 1: Compatibility Pack or Viewer

Actually if you're trying to open a PowerPoint 2007 files in your older vision, The program will prompt "This file was created by a newer vision of Microsoft PowerPoint. Do you want to download a compatibility pack so that you can work with this file?". Otherwise you can download the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats" directly from Microsoft's official site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en. With Microsoft's compatibility pack, you can open and view most PowerPoint 2007 files in compatibility mode.
Besides, Microsoft offers PowerPoint 2007 Viewer 2007 to simply view PowerPoint presentations. It can view most PowerPoint 2007 files without problems. You can get it directly from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en.
However, the compatibility pack and viewer can not handle all PowerPoint 2007 files properly. Sometimes the objects or the fonts are missing; sometimes it doesn't work at all. But as the official solution from Microsoft, it's worth trying.

Solution 2: Save PPTX/PPSX to PPT/PPS

There're other ways to do with PowerPoint 2007. Before you take the presentations home, you can transform the new PowerPoint 2007 files formats PPTX/PPSX to older vision files formats PPT/PPS in campus. In PowerPoint 2007, click the Office Button, point to Save As, select PowerPoint 97 - 2003 Presentation, and choose the Save as type as you want.
If you enable the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Compatibility Checker, PowerPoint will prompt for those features in your presentation which are not supported by earlier versions of PowerPoint. Once continue to save, those unsupported contents will be removed or converted to static objects in older versions.

Solution 3: Convert to Other Formats

In order to totally avoid these compatibility issues between PowerPoint versions, converting PowerPoint 2007 files to other formats is a considerable solution. You can convert all slides to a video clip or burn as a DVD movie. But I don't think that's the best choice. Since the popular Flash technology is powerful for multimedia and widely supported, converting PowerPoint presentation to Flash would be great deal. Original content, small file size and easy control in Flash are great for your presentations. You need to find some tools with genuine PowerPoint 2007 support, such as Wondershare PPT2Flash. Get free trial directly at http://www.sameshow.com/download/ppt2flash-download.html.

You may think it's not happening in your campus yet. But since Office 2007 was recommended in more and more states, your school is going to deploy it soon. Get a copy of Office 2007 now, or remember my alternative solutions above!


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