I have some old MS Office PowerPoint files going back 10+ years. Quite a number of them, for some strange reason, would no longer open when I upgraded to Office 2001, nor the latest Office 2004 (some 'file' error message appeared). Many of them contained historical slides, that although old, are often still useful for my latest slide presentations.
I had given them up for dead until recently when I tried to open them in NeoOffice/J (a Mac-centric version of the open source OpenOffice suite). I was quite thrilled to find that the troublsome presentations opened without any error messages. I have since been able to resurrect all those files by opening and resaving them in a format that Office 2004 would recognize.
For those who are in a similar situation, give NeoOffice/J a try.
[robg adds: This much older hint explained how to use an old version of Office to work around this same problem.]
I had given them up for dead until recently when I tried to open them in NeoOffice/J (a Mac-centric version of the open source OpenOffice suite). I was quite thrilled to find that the troublsome presentations opened without any error messages. I have since been able to resurrect all those files by opening and resaving them in a format that Office 2004 would recognize.
For those who are in a similar situation, give NeoOffice/J a try.
[robg adds: This much older hint explained how to use an old version of Office to work around this same problem.]
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