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Microsoft’s PowerPoint® (PPT) has become the ubiquitous legal presentation software over the years due to its flexibility, reliability and ease of use by nearly everyone in this profession. And, with millions of presentations residing on millions of computers around the world, it will continue to be the top presentation program for the foreseeable future. Over the years this software has been updated and in general, improved. However, in the updating process, some compatibility issues have surfaced that can surprise and disappoint, if we are unaware.
One fine thing about Microsoft software, particularly the MS Office package, has been its backward and forward compatibility between various versions. Files could be reliably updated, saved, and presented from the various versions of the software. Well, that party’s over, for PowerPoint presentations at least.
As the newer versions of MS Office (2007 & 2010) have been released with their expanded and updated features, incompatibility issues with archived files produced on different Office versions have arisen. PowerPoint has been particularly afflicted. Today, it is very important to become aware of your presentation’s native PPT production version.
The vast majority of today’s presentations have been created in PowerPoint version 2003, 2007 or 2010. If your presentation will be edited on or transferred to another computer, it is most important to learn in advance, what PPT version is resident on that machine. If that PPT version is different from the native version of your presentation … you may be in for some surprises.
More and more these days we hear from clients who when reviewing an old PPT presentation on a new computer, are surprised to suddenly discover …
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