File size – too large to open?

From: HVTsRMe <HVTsRMe_at_discussions.microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:42:00 -0800

A novice colleague built a 123MB presentation. I’ve already explained he should never do that … make it a series of smaller files. Too late however … now we can’t open it. He was adding (yet another) picture file when it seized up … dialog box told him to close the file as something was “incompatible” (that’s all he remembers). He tried to print, but only half the slides would (printer memory limitation?). Now when we try to open it, we get “Powerpoint can’t open the type of file represented by …”

Even though it has a .ppt extension, PP does not recognize it … is that because the file is so huge?

Is there any way to break it into smaller parts now and recover it? Can we somehow extract the text and jettison the pictures? I realize these are long shots, but I’ve got to try! Thanks! Received on Sun Mar 02 2008 - 11:42:00 PST