Will a powerpoint saved in Powerpoint 2002 open in powerpoint 97?

[niwi7]

I brought my disk home from school which has powerpoint 97 (or maybe even 95) to finish up my powerpoint....however....i saved over the old 1 and then realized that this is in powerpoint 2002 format, not in powerpoint 97 or 95 format...there is an option to save as powerpoint 95-97 format but it takes up 8 mb for some reason and i have to fit it on a floppy


so my question is--- if I save my powerpoint regularly as a regular powerpoint in my Powerpoint 2002, and then bring it to school and open it in powerpoint 97 or 95, will it not open at all, or will it just be missing the features that are included in powerpoint 2002 and I will have to re-do my custom animations?


need a valid response by tomorow morning

thanks alot!

 

[niwi7]

need this by tomorow any1 ever try this ?

 

[ProviaFan]

No, I'm afraid that won't work. I've tried to go 2000 > 95, and it doesn't.

Edit: does the presentation have tons of images in it? Can you do without some of them? That might make it smaller.

 

[niwi7]

yea but i need them--- why is it only 700kb when saved regularly but when saved as 97 8 mb?

maybe ill burn it on a cd in the ppt 97 8 mb file, and then open it at school on powerpoint 97, and save it regularly--- would that make it like 600-800 kb again?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: niwi7
yea but i need them--- why is it only 700kb when saved regularly but when saved as 97 8 mb?

maybe ill burn it on a cd in the ppt 97 8 mb file, and then open it at school on powerpoint 97, and save it regularly--- would that make it like 600-800 kb again?

Possibly, but I can't test it here (don't have those specific versions of Office). My guess is that when Office XP saves as 95/97 format, it doesn't compress the images, while when 97 saves it, the images are compressed (my theory is that PPT95 may not be able to handle compressed images, but PPT97 can, so PPTXP saves them without compression to be "safe").