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Old 08-04-2009, 01:04 AM
thorgal67 thorgal67 is offline Unable to open a PowerPoint file Windows XP Unable to open a PowerPoint file Office 2003
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I have a powerpoint file (*.ppt) that I often use.



Today, for no logical reason, PowerPoint refuses to open this file.

I get the message : "PowerPoint can't read the outline from P:\test.ppt.
No text converter is installed for this file type".

I have already tried the following:
- convert it to pdf
- change the file name
- change the location
- change the extension to *.pps

nothing helps. Is there anything else I can try?
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Old 09-10-2009, 07:17 PM
zyzzyva57 zyzzyva57 is offline Unable to open a PowerPoint file Windows 7 32bit Unable to open a PowerPoint file Office 2007
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On a Windows machine I would go to Start and do a Restore back to the day previous to the problem and then do a Restart
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