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Power-point 2010 has changed all my slides to pictures and now I can't edit or change them back! Help needed urgently!!

Anonymous
2011-11-04T16:58:03+00:00

Power-point 2010 has changed all my slides to pictures and now I can't edit or change them back! Help needed urgently!!  I have tried everything I can think of - 'save as' - 'open file as' - reinstalling the program - trying to change the layout of the slides back to their orignal but powerpoint wont let me do anything other then 'edit/format picture' - this has happened for all my slides which were originally all in title and content (text) format.  I do not know what I did!!!!!!

Help would be much appreciated - this is for a final exam!!!!

Thanks,

Kerrie

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Steve Rindsberg 99,161 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2011-11-06T00:15:29+00:00

A couple of things to consider:

If you saved as a PPT 97-2003 format file (.PPT) then some parts of your presentation may become uneditable pictures when you open the PPT in PowerPoint 2003 or earlier, but it should affect you if you continue opening the presentations in PPT 2007 or 2010.

I thought perhaps you might have set PPT to save as default to a Picture presentation, but that's not possible ... it's not one of the default save-as options.

I'd make sure when saving to choose File | Save As the first time and choose PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx) as the Save As Type.

Then as you work on the presentation, whenever you've done more work than you're willing to risk, save as to a new file name.  Whatever-001.PPTX then Whatever-002 and so on.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-11-05T11:03:09+00:00

    Unfortunately I don't have a previous saved version - guess I'm just going to have to start again - do you know how this happened? Just so I can avoid this happening again - thanks for your help

    It sounds as though you may have somehow saved your presentation as a PowerPoint Picture Presentation (which does exactly what you've described).  Do you have a previous saved verion you can revert to?

     

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  2. Steve Rindsberg 99,161 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-11-05T03:25:06+00:00

    It sounds as though you may have somehow saved your presentation as a PowerPoint Picture Presentation (which does exactly what you've described).  Do you have a previous saved verion you can revert to?

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