When I try to open a PPTX file in PowerPoint 2011, I get "There was an error accessing ". This is a known good file, it opens on another mac just fine.
1) Try opening the PPTX with OpenOffice...
2) Look other ways here: http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/1129888-powerpoint-file-crashes-powerpoint-upon.html
It seems like the powerpoint presentation requires an external resource, such as a video or picture, and that resource is missing on the mac the powerpoint file is being transferred to. Try to put all the files from your presentation in a single folder and copy the folder to the other computer.
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I have a power point file(.pptx) generated by a program that copies xml files and content files in a slide to other slides. It simply extracts xml files and content files from original power point file and then copies xml files, finally compresses the files as a zip file and renames the file to xxxxx.pptx. (The xml files I mentioned here is, of course, about Office Open XML)
When I open this file in Keynote on Mac OS X, it works well. No error happened.
However when I use PowerPoint application on Mac OS X, the app says "PowerPoint found a problem with content in xxxxx.pptx"
I think there are differences between PowerPoint specs and Keynote specs, so I need to apply the generated pptx file to the PowerPoint specs.
But, the error does not say WHERE or WHAT ERROR IS OCCURRED, but says there are some errors in that file.
So I cannot look for where is damaged in the generated file!
How do I detect the errors in the file or validate the format of it?
I do not want to get 'restore tools' but 'error detection tools'.
I simply used Open XML SDK 2.5 Productivity Tool.
In my situation, it said the Content-Type of xml files was different from expected one when I opened the pptx file. Soon, it occurred to me I forgot to change the data in [Content_Types].xml
After I fixed it, the file is opened without problems now!!
This app also shows codes in C# and validate each xml files individually.
Download Link is here ->
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30425
I want to create a a SpreadsheetML file on local drive which can be opened in MS Excel or Open Office by clicking on file in Windows Explorer.
I tried all filename extensions registered to Microsoft Excel i could find so far.
Some of them (.xls for example) allows file to be opened, but after "File is in different format than specified by the file extension" warning dialog. Some extensions (like .xlsx) causes Excel to show format error dialog without opening file.
Wikipedia tells that extension should be .xml, but it is registered to be opened by web browser by default.
This, this and this similar questions are about downloading a file from web and setting proper content-type. But i can not change content-type for local file.
This article explains how this annoying Extension Hardening mechanism works and how to disable it, but i think it is wrong to force user to disable security features just to allow spreadsheet file to be opened.
So there is no solution or am i missing something?
Now Open Office can open .xlsx (and read) files and Excel can open (and read) .ods files. My suggestion is to pick one of them that best suits your audience and your understanding of the specific file format.
Both of the applications have advantages and disadvanges and non-supported features between the two of them.
I suggest reviewing the document Differences between the OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) format and the Excel (.xlsx) format.
When you work with two file formats, like .xlsx and .ods, there might
be formatting differences, and not all features will be available.
You’ll be able to convert data and content, but the way you work with
the content might be different depending on which formats you use.
One gotcha is with Open Office when you save a .xlsx file it will change the format to a .ods file. Both the applications will re-arrange the folder structure after saving anyway.
The biggest change is how you go about creating the SpreadsheetML files, both Open Office and Excel have a different folder structure depending on the file extension you will use.
Here is a short example of an Excel folder format.
-/
- _rels/
- .rels
- xl/
- _rels/
- workbook.xml.rels
- sheet1.xml
- workbook.xml
- [Content_Types].xml
I have created a sample GitHub repository for this with a sample that will open in both Excel and Open Office.
https://github.com/Nico-StackOverflow/proper-spreadsheetml-file-extension
I made a PowerPoint presentation with PP 2011 for Mac, and went through and narrated it. After narration, I could go through the entire presentation and hear my voice. I saved the file and closed it. When I opened it later, there was still the narration icon under each slide, but no sound. I have replicated this issue with other presentations. Narrations record and work fine, until you close the file and open it again. How do I save the sound? I ran a search for any .wav files and found nothing in my entire user directory. Narration timings also seem to work correctly, just no audio.
It ended up being that the file was being saved as a ppt, not a pptx. So powerpoint would allow you to record a narration but it wouldn't save the audio.
I am writing a cross-platform application which generates PDF documents and then opens them with the standard PDF viewer. On Linux, updating (re-writing) an already opened document is no problem. The PDF viewer (have tried several) updates the displayed document after overwriting the file. I don't even have to trigger anything. This comes in very handy.
On Windows, however, I cannot overwrite a PDF document opened for reading by some viewer, because the viewers seem to open the document exclusively. Of course I cannot change the code of the viewers like Adobe Reader.
Is there any solution to this? I don't want to clutter the directory with arbitrary new file names, but rather use the same file name again. Deleting of the opened file is also forbidden on Windows.
I cannot determine which PDF viewer is used. In order to open the document, I use
cmd.exe /c start <fileName>
So I was writing a paper on Microsoft Word and the file is corrupt now. I'm trying to see if I can open the file using vim, but it says it is binary. Is there any command or any way to convert it into text so that I can just vim myfile.doc and copy the text contents? I tried doing a cp myfile.doc myfile.txt to change the extension but it still says it's binary.
A doc file is a proprietary format by Microsoft. Docx formats are xml based but neither can be read directly using a text editor. If your file is corrupt you're probably going to have a lot more luck try to find the autosave location or try and recover the document using the tool office provides. In future remember to back up your work ;)
/usr/bin/strings may be helpful -- built-in to OS X. Hope you can recover your paper.
.doc or .docx is not a plane txt file. It has several formatting and a bit of binary and in .docx xml factor included.
You can go for OpenOffice which is Free.
You might try using Antiword to convert to .txt if it can still access the file properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiword
Word itself has an option to "Recover Text From Any File" which is worth trying if you haven't done so already. When you open the file in Word, if it doesn't recognise the format, you should see a conversion dialog and the option is in there. You might have to check the "Confirm conversion at open" option (e.g. "Word Preferences->General->Confirm conversion at open" on Mac Word 2011, "File->Options->Advanced->General->Confirm file format conversion on open" on Windows Word 2010.