PowerPoint
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
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How to import a very old .pps file, with its slides and music, into a new *.pptx file in an updated Office Mac v16.90.1 in macOS Ventura v13.7?
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Ant
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I'm trying to help my client with this. We tried to insert from it, but it loses the original background music, images, etc. If it can't be imported, then is there a way to have the newer slide tell PowerPoint to open this very old .pps slide to show its slides and music, and then resume where it left off?
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Mac: A family of Apple personal computers that run the macOS operating system.
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Jiajing Hua-MFST 10,885 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor2024-10-24T07:42:02.6133333+00:00 -
Jiajing Hua-MFST 10,885 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2024-10-28T08:01:51.2566667+00:00 Hi @Ant
If you have a chance to be back, welcome to share us with the updates.
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Steve Rindsberg 1 Reputation point MVP2024-10-31T14:42:25.8966667+00:00 If background music, images, etc. still be lost, you may extract files or objects from this PowerPoint file, and insert these objects back.
No, sorry. That's true of PPTX/PPSX/PPTM files, but NOT the older PPT/PPS format.
More likely with those versions of PowerPoint files, the music is linked, meaning that IF you have the original music files, you can insert them into the new PPTX. If you don't have them, you're out of luck, I'm afraid. The same is true of any other linked content (images, charts, etc).
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Jiajing Hua-MFST 10,885 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2024-11-05T09:00:57.69+00:00 Hi @Steve Rindsberg
Thanks for pointing this out. I will modify my previous answer.
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