PowerPoint 2010 won’t open any files

microsoft-powerpointoffice-2010-beta

Recently I installed Office 2010 BETA on my friend's laptop after recommending it to her. The problem is, whenever she tries to open files in powerpoint it claims that there is a problem with them and it can attempt to repair them, when you click repair it just says there was a problem with the file and it can't open it.

The exact same .ppt files work fine on my copy of PowerPoint 2010 (we sent the file from her laptop to mine via MSN) so I'm confused as to why they won't work just on her laptop.

Any insight into this would be fantastic 🙂

Thanks.

Best Answer

I found that if I right-click on the troubled files, and select Properties, I find a Security message at the bottom of the General tab. There is a button to the right to "Unblock" the content from the file. Once I clicked on that, the file opened just fine.

Related Solutions

Powerpoint crashes far too frequently

According to the article "Diagnose and repair crashing Office programs by using Office Diagnostics", you can run these tests by:

Click the Microsoft Office ButtonButton image, and then click PowerPoint Options.
Click Resources.
Click Diagnose, click Continue, and then click Start Diagnostics.

Apart for this, are there any common properties between the two crashing machines, such as maybe same model of installed printer?

Inserting infinity symbol in Powerpoint 2010

221e is the correct unicode value for the infinity math symbol (∞). It should be displayed correctly, given you use a font that contains the symbol.

It seems to be a bug either in the font you use or in PowerPoint itself. Since you tried different fonts, it might be a bug in PowerPoint.

Inserting a graphic

If you decide to insert a graphic, don't use a JPEG file. JPEGs are meant for photorealistic images only and produce ugly artifacts when used for text. Use a vector format instead, e.g. SVG. If everything else fails, fail back to a high resolution PNG, which is a pixel format. In contrast to JPEG it does not produce artifacts at character borders.

If you use LaTeX, then I would advice to use the standalone class. This class crops the image automatically. The resulting PDF file can then be converted to an SVG file e.g. using inkscape:

inkscape \
  --without-gui \
  --export-ignore-filters \
  --export-plain-svg=output.svg \
  input.pdf

Given that you choose a math font in LaTeX that matches your presentation font, this is the best result you can get in PowerPoint. And it's all vector graphics and scalable.

If you do this regularly, I would recommend to have a look at the LaTeX beamer class for presentations.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Powerpoint crashes far too frequently

Inserting infinity symbol in Powerpoint 2010

Related Question