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diafero wrote:Thanks for converting it to the old ppt format

Or the Powerpoint Viewer 2007.

Microsoft offers a small compatability patch that lets you open office 2007 files with earlier office versions - just search on their download site it should be there

I doubt this will help me to open that file with OpenOffice on Linux...

5 second search on google found
http://icosahedron.wordpress.com/2007/1 ... -on-linux/

And 5 seconds to read the first paragraph shows

OOXML is not likely to be supported.

As I said I have no problem opening the PPT 97-03 file (and I already had a look at the presentation - nice photos ), it's just the OOXML which does not work.

I did, but read it differently so I offered an idea