Office 2000 compatibility problem

I am running Vista Basic and have MS Office 2000 Professional installed on it
(I know I seriously need to upgrade, but am a student with budget issues).
I'm trying to use my Power Point 2000 to open a .pptx created in Power Point
2007, and I've tried to follow the necessary instructions.

First I installed the Compatibility Pack, and that didn't help. The website
said I needed to have all necessary office updates, so I upgraded my Office
to the SR-1 version, and then I installed Service Pack 3 (that's the order it
told me to do it in). Then I even un- and reinstalled the Compatibility Pack.
It still doesn't work.

When I try to open the .pptx file, it says: "PowerPoint can't read the
outline from 'file.pptx'. No text converter is installed for this file type."
I thought I followed the instructions correctly, and am not sure what to try
next.

Thanks for any help,
Rob

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

There is a free Powerpoint Viewer 2007 from MS; link is above.
There are also, Word and Excel 2007 free viewers.


Hope it helps.
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Rowi" wrote:

> I am running Vista Basic and have MS Office 2000 Professional installed on it
> (I know I seriously need to upgrade, but am a student with budget issues).
> I'm trying to use my Power Point 2000 to open a .pptx created in Power Point
> 2007, and I've tried to follow the necessary instructions.
>
> First I installed the Compatibility Pack, and that didn't help. The website
> said I needed to have all necessary office updates, so I upgraded my Office
> to the SR-1 version, and then I installed Service Pack 3 (that's the order it
> told me to do it in). Then I even un- and reinstalled the Compatibility Pack.
> It still doesn't work.
>
> When I try to open the .pptx file, it says: "PowerPoint can't read the
> outline from 'file.pptx'. No text converter is installed for this file type."
> I thought I followed the instructions correctly, and am not sure what to try
> next.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Rob

Ok, so I just managed to get an upgrade to Office 2007 through my work, so
the problem is no more. Thanks for the advice anyway.

-rob