pptx incomplete, please reload

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I have just tried to load into the service our usual notices powerpoints and along with the rest of the file path the above message appears in a Missing Presentation window.

I am currently exploring whether and how I change to OLP from Songpro, so I am setting up a Service in OLP in parallel to Songpro, and looking to test this out before or after a service.

Everything seemed to work - without projector hookup etc with last weeks service plan, but for some reason not this one.

I have just noticed that the file this week is pptx and not ppt as previously but this seems to work in my old version 4 of SongPro.

Have I missed a step. I couldn't seem to find this in the manual or online or in this forum.

Any assistance would be welcome
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  • alsorrellalsorrell
    Do you have MS Powerpoint (which version) or OpenOffice (which version) loaded on your PC? If so, can you open the .pptx file outside of OpenLP?
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  • revderekrevderek
    edited April 8
    This is affecting me, too. Using Linux Mint 19 with openlp 2.4.6 and Libre Office 6.2 I can add odp and ppt presentations but as soon as I try to add them from presentations to the service I get the error:
    The presentation xxxx.odp is incomplete, please reload (xxxx=full pathname)
    All the presentations which I have tried open perfectly outside openlp
    P.S. This is a bit of a show stopper for me as I now have to revert to LibreOffice Impress this Sunday.
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  • wogsterwogster
    Microsoft has this odd habit of changing one tiny feature, so that a newer versions file, does not work with an older version of the software, just to force upgrades.  This could be as simple as changing a file version flag.  Of course until the folks at LibreOffice get ahold of a few of these files and pull them apart, to see what the difference is, they can't support it either.  

    Unless you really need some feature from PowerPoint the ideal would be to export the PowerPoint slides as JPG files, and then load them into OpenLP as a group of images, and add that group to the service.  If it's just text in front of a background, have them email the text, with indicators where they want the splits, and then do a custom slide deck in a lot less time, then to fight with PowerPoint.  Often the only reason to use PowerPoint is it's fancy slide transitions, which are kinda lame anyway.  
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