Article ID: 273685 - Last Review: January 29, 2007 - Revision: 1.2

PPT2001: PowerPoint Movies Cannot Be Inserted in Windows PowerPoint 2000 Presentations

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SYMPTOMS

If you save a Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Mac presentation as a PowerPoint Movie, and then attempt to insert that movie in a PowerPoint 2000 presentation, you receive the following error message:
PowerPoint couldn't insert a movie from the selected file. Either the file is non-standard, or QuickTime is not installed properly.
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CAUSE

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 for Windows does not support the playing of QuickTime movies.
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WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, save the Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Mac presentation as a presentation (.ppt) file, and then open this file in PowerPoint 2000 and modify it, if needed. You cannot insert it as a movie into a PowerPoint 2000 presentation.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2001 for Mac
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
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Keywords: 
kberrmsg kbnofix kbprb KB273685
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