After upgrade to Lion, Powerpoint (Office 2008) crashes! But I found a solution.

1. After I upgraded to Lion, my Powerpoint (Office 2008) would load, but when I tried to run the slideshow, it would crash and I got the same error messages that other users have posted.
2. I found that I could move a presentation from a flash drive, I could view the slides and make changes to slides, and even run the slideshow, but if I saved the presentation, when I tried to run the slideshow, it crashed.
3. After some experimentation, I found that I was saving the presentation using Powerpoint format (.ppt). If I did a "File Save As" and changed the Powerpoint file format to (.pptx) the presentation would run properly. There is a scary black screen while the presentation loads but after that it works properly.
4. This may explain why so many users are reporting different experiences with Powerpoint after the Lion upgrade.
Hope this helps,
GS KLIVANS

Bless you, Mr. Klivans. I have a 2-day workshop to give starting the day after tomorrow and spent most of the night trying to fix this. I hate the PowerPoint 2011 presenter view and 2008 kept crashing. Grrrr. Your response absolutely solved the problem. Thank you SO much. Lynne

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