Opening Powerpoint 08 in Keynote

I am currently working with the 06 version of Keynote and the 08 version of Powerpoint. New Powerpoint files cannot be opened in the the 06 version of Keynote. Does anyone know if the 08 version of Keynote will open these new powerpoint files?

I came across this issue just yesterday...and the answer is no. You have three options. If you have Office 2008 just open the file as save as an earlier version of PowerPoint.
You can convert the file online using Zamzar <http://www.zamzar.com/>
Microsoft has a downloadable converter (Open XML File Format Converter) on this page <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx>.
Hope this helps.

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