A presentation containing a comment and saved as .ppt (not .pptx) can be reloaded by LibreOffice, but not opened in MS PowerPoint Reproduced on LibreOffice 4.4.0.3 / OSX 10.10 / Office for Mac 2011 Steps to reproduce 1. Create new Impress presentation 2. Insert - Comment (type a few random words) 3. Save As - Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP/2003 (.ppt) 4. Reopen file using MS PowerPoint Expected result - Working file containing a comment Actual result - PowerPoint complains the file is broken, fails to recover the actual content (Comments created in PP and saved as .ppt also don't import into LO, which probably related)
I can not confirm with LO 4.4.0.3, powerpoint2010, win7
@Matthew Francis please upload a test file where you exactly reproduce the bug.
Works for me with : LO 434 as the creator application Powerpoint Mac 2011 v14.4.8
Also wfm if I use LO master dev 4500 alpha own build to create the PPT.
You wouldn't by any chance be opening with PP 2013 ? I see a similar error with XLSX files created in LO when opening them in Excel 2013, but most, if not all, of the data is recoverable.
Sorry, ignore my last comment, I see that you're using Office Mac 2011 same as my own tests.
Created attachment 113562 [details] Test file (ODP)
Created attachment 113563 [details] Test file (saved as PPT)
See the attached PPT - PowerPoint complains on opening, and the comment is missing PowerPoint for Mac 2011 Version 14.3.9 (131030)
Opened successfully on PP 2007, 2010 and 2013 on Windows 7. So this seems to be limited to MS Office for Mac.
Created attachment 113657 [details] Resaved ppt file in Powerpoint 2007 Matthew: Try to see if this ppt file saved from Powerpoint 2007 will open fine for you.
Confirming that mjayfrancis attached PPT file causes error on opening with Mac Powerpoint 2011. Also confirming that if I open the ODP file and save as PPT, I see the same error when attempting to open in PP 2011 for Mac. However, if I create my own blank presentation with LO 4341 and insert a comment, then save it as PPT directly, I do not get an error when opening in PP 2011 and the comment is visible. @mjayfrancis : sounds like a user profile issue ? I see a problem with your files, but not my own. Confirming in respect of attached files
Tested also on LO 4403 direct save to PPT on Macmini, then accessed remotely over AFP from PP 2011 for Mac, comment displays fine. Two OSX machines in my pool produce the same result, i.e. no problem.
Created attachment 113675 [details] Test PPT containing comment made with LO 4403
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This issue is still reproducible in Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: e7f55f15ccd97bc92e1400bc5862171a621da3e2 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.1; UI Render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2016-04-27_00:29:05 Locale: es-ES (es_ES)
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I can reproduce this issue using Matthew's file when opening in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac (15.39). PowerPoint has to repair the document and deletes the comment. This also happens if I create a completely new odp and export to ppt. Setting as critical as this causes data loss Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 15dce20e8b97dbd0179f01910ca4d0027e80ff4e CPU threads: 2; OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6; UI render: default; TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2017-10-20_06:46:46 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Corrupted file problem no longer reproduced in Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 0ef0740298b45379bbf8d00d50beffee7a2f812a CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.10; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME [Improvement found by office-interoperability-tools]
So to make it perfectly clear, the .ppt file written by LibreOffice can be opened in PowerPoint on Windows, but not PowerPoint on Mac? And this is true regardless whether the .ppt file is written by LibreOffice on Mac, Linux or Windows?
Can the problem be reproduced with a .ppt file written by a current LibreOffice, or just with the attached test file?
eisa01's comment seems to indicate that it can be reproduced with a completely newly written file, so ignore my last question.
But this question remains: If a similar .ppt file is written by LibreOffice on Linux or Windows, can that not be opened by PowerPoint on macOS either? If that is the case, this is clearly not a bug in LibreOffice on macOS, but a cross-platform one.
I can't reproduce the issue either on Linux Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 6ebc026e34d0c119067e7dfbad8d932f92844760 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded or Mac Version: 6.1.0.0.beta2 Build ID: 0f4d2060bc90b4008fbc8e6d9a49ec7eeea60b78 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.3; UI render: default; Locale: en-US (en_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded and MSO 2010 I guess we can close this as RESOLVED WORKSFORME @eisa01, please try again an reopen it if you can still reproduce it on your side
Just to be sure, I downloaded the .ODP attached, I converted it to .PPT and I opened it in MSO 2010 and no error is displayed. Version: 6.1.0.0.beta2 Build ID: 0f4d2060bc90b4008fbc8e6d9a49ec7eeea60b78 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.3; UI render: default; Locale: en-US (en_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
This works for me now on macOS, but I think it's because PowerPoint has been updated to version 16.9.1. All the test files in this bug report now work So that would make it not our bug, but Microsoft's? Resolving as such I think they have aligned the code base across all versions now: https://www.thurrott.com/office/150577/office-2016-mac-now-aligned-windows-android-ios