Help on Microsoft Powerpoint COmpatibility Problem

Help on Microsoft Powerpoint COmpatibility Problem

The reason behind this is version incompatibility. Though Microsoft Office supports backward compatibility, meaning it can open Microsoft Office documents created in previous or older versions, but it might encounter a problem opening a document if the file was created in a much newer version of Microsoft Office. Even if it can open the file, the data may not display correctly.

Let’s take Microsoft Office 2003 as an example. In Microsoft Office 2003, you can open documents created in 2003 version and older. This means you can also open and access documents created in Microsoft Office 1993. That’s how backward compatibility works. But on the other hand, documents created in Microsoft Office 2007 will not open in Microsoft Office 2003.

In case it opens, you might have incorrect data in it. If you are looking for a solution to this, there is actually none that is, if you want to directly open a Microsoft Office 2007 document in Microsoft Office 1993. This is how Microsoft Office suites are created. Just like in a security system, you cannot penetrate or breach a system if the technology used is ahead of you.

The only work around you can do is to save the file in Microsoft Office 2007 as 97-2003 format. Open Microsoft Office 2007 and load the file. Click on the Office Button, point to Save As, and select Word 97-2003 Document, and then save the file. See image.