MS Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation won't view at school!?

Question

My daughter worked for two weeks on a PowerPoint 2003 school project created on my Windows XP Professional home computer. When she took it to school to deliver her presentation in front of the class it would not pull up in the viewer they have. She was mortified, her teacher told her she should have made sure it would work and gave her an immediate F on her project.
WHAT HAPPENED??? We are new to it and I'm guessing it is a compatibility problem. She put it on a CD Rom. I'd like info to take to the teacher on her behalf. Thanks.

Answer 1

This has happened to me before too. What you need to remember is whenever you save a powerpoint and are planning to open it on another computer, the title should have ".ppt" at the end of it.

Answer 2

There are multiple possibilties, and without further detail it is impossible to say what happened:
1) CD ROM was not burned properly or it has scratches, etc. Test the CD ROM at home to check for this possibility.
2) School has older version software that does not work with Power Point 2003 (which is the latest version sans Vista).
3) Was it a "plain text" (simple) Power Point or it have movies etc embedded in it? If the latter, again compatibility problems are to blame, not the kid.

At any rate, it sounds ridiculous to me that the teacher immediately gave an F ...

Answer 3

If your daughter saved her file as a Powerpoint presentation, the PC at school should have been able to open it. Did she create the presentation in the same version of PPT as that in school?

Please ask her to bring up the file at home and be sure when clicking File, Save As, she looks at the bottom of the screen and saves it as a PPT presentation in "filetype."

When beginning to work on PCs, it is easy to make the simplest mistakes; however, they can work to our advantage in that they serve as a learning experience and hopefully prevent us from making the same mistake again.