PCWorld Forums

PCWorld Forums: Open Old PowerPoint Documents in PowerPoint 2007 - PCWorld Forums

Jump to content

PCWorld Community

Help

Page 1 of 1

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Open Old PowerPoint Documents in PowerPoint 2007

#1 PCWorld

Advanced Member

Group: PCWorld BOT
Posts: 103,802
Joined: 01-August 07

Posted 24 June 2009 - 11:11 AM

Post your comments for Open Old PowerPoint Documents in PowerPoint 2007 here

#2 johnmac

Newbie

Group: Members
Posts: 3
Joined: 18-October 07

Posted 24 June 2009 - 03:22 PM

Seeing OpenOffice.org can open PowerPoint files, will it also open legacy versions? (I don't have a file to test this on, either.)

#3 fseelig

Newbie

Group: Members
Posts: 6
Joined: 03-October 07

Posted 30 June 2009 - 10:40 AM

Find a copy of the most recent version of PowerPoint that did support it (buy online, at ebay, find it in a thrift store, etc.). Use that to open the files, and upgrade them to that version. Repeat as necessary.

#4 VHMP01

Senior Member

Group: Members
Posts: 512
Joined: 16-February 08

Posted 01 July 2009 - 10:32 AM

For #1, you can also install an old Windows XP, 98 or 95 Virtual PC, so that installing Office 2003 or 97 would not be a problem. From there keep upgrading as mentioned.

Once I had a similar problem in AutoCAD, worst was files were on floppies with who knows what format. Had to dig a very old CPU to solve it, once on a network, shared the folder, copied them and got them upgraded thankfully. Good luck!