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Problems converting Keynote to Powerpoint after Jan update

Having done the requested IWork upgrade it seems impossible to read a keynote presentation that's been converted to Powerpoint. I did it on an old Mac without the recent Jan 2011 update and worked fine. When I copied the converted Powerpoint pres back to the new mac with the update, it wouldn't read it! I suspect the latest keynote update has caused the problem...any advice on what to do would be most welcome

thanks

macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jan 10, 2011 2:22 PM

23 replies

Jul 22, 2011 1:01 PM in response to mr owl

If this will help anyone:

I'm running Keynote '09.

Export Keynote presentation to PowerPoint.

Using Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2001...trying to open the new PowerPoint file, and get the error messages as many have mentioned, and file won't open.

Tried ungrouping, but nothing was grouped anyway, except for a couple of master pages.

What finally worked was that I had applied "Picture Frame" to most of my graphics. When I unchecked the "Picture Frames" and export the file to PowerPoint again, it worked OK.

So now I'll have to do my picture frames some other way, but at least the file works.

Aug 13, 2011 12:21 PM in response to MoodyRiver

Although Keynote and Lion are almost unusable for me...one thing that WAS fixed with the recent upgrade was the export to powerpoint that used to fail with grouped items as listed above...

So, try updating your keynote version...it may help (but the other problems with the update may not make it worth it!)

Oct 20, 2015 12:40 PM in response to mr owl

I was having the same issue as mr owl... I think this might be helpful to some people.

When exporting a file from keynote: click on >Advanced Options and then format window will pop up and choose .pp (power point 1997-2003) compatible. Next save as and export to your destination area. Hope this helps!

Oct 20, 2015 3:26 PM in response to mimimine3

You misunderstand the issue in this rather old discussion from 2011 which were resolved with the update for Keynote at that time.

The format options in exporting for PowerPoint allow for two different filetypes;

1 - pptx an xml based filetype compatible with PowerPoint 2004 onwards,

2 - ppt, a non-xml based filetype compatible with Powerpoint 2003 and earlier.

The choice of filetype will be dependant on which version of PowerPoint will be used

Jan 30, 2016 8:30 AM in response to mr owl

It's 2016 and I exported my Keynote presentation to the default pptx format.

I had the same issue when opening in Microsoft Powerpoint 2008.

The pages were blank.

What I found was that Keynote gives you the option of exporting as a pptx file (under Advanced Options once you select "Export" or ppt file (1997 to 2003 PPT compatible). Even though my version of Powepoint was 2008 it did properly open once I exported my Keynote file as .ppt.

Jan 30, 2016 1:02 PM in response to Applequestor

PowerPoint version 2008 is not compatible with the newer XML based file type of PowerPoint 2011, which uses the suffix of pptx.

So when exporting Keynote to PowerPoint 2008 the ppt format should be used.

Apr 5, 2016 4:24 PM in response to Applequestor

i exported from keynote 6.6.1 in both powerpoint formats, and neither is visible on my flashdrive when trying to open on a pc using the newest Powerpoint. They were both visible, and opened, on a pc using an older edition of Powerpoint.

any suggestions?

Apr 6, 2016 8:11 AM in response to gardenina

Reformat the USB drive as MS DOS FAT in Disc Utility:

open disc Utility, click on the USB drive, select MS DOS then click Erase

copy the files to the USB drive

Problems converting Keynote to Powerpoint after Jan update