**EDIT!!** The Topic should read "PowerPoint" not "Word". Sorry about that

If I can save a presentation in PowerPoint 2007 as a 2003 format, then should I not be able to open files from 2003 into 2007?

The reason why I am asking is; I started doing a PowerPoint presentation in 2007 last night. I saved it as 97/2003 file. So I would be able to open it at school. It worked fine took it to school and worked on it there, and saved it. I bring it back home and go to open it, and all I get are blank slides with some of my text on a couple of them but non of my graphics or pictures or formatting of any sort.

Kinda at a lost why.

I wonder if it changed it back to a 2007 format when you worked on it at school. this kind of stuff happens to me all the time too...sorry

Check the master layout - sometimes when going back and forth between 2003 and 2007, the master slide link to the layout gets broken, which reverts the presentation back to the blank layout. You may have to reapply the layout, and it should recover.

Me thinks the program may be backwards compatible but not forward compatible... IE. you saved it from school as a 2003 and tried to open it at home with a 2007 version... and while you used a 2007 to create it and saved it as a 2003, the actual 2003 at your school was not "miming" 2003 but an actual 2003, ergo saving it with only actual 2003 traits with no forward compatability to open in 2007... confused? So am I...

Ask your instructor at school for a more consice response...

Actually, it's backwards and forwards compatible. Well, technically it's supposed to be. PPT has the most issues with going between versions out of all of the office suite products.

Thanks guys! I got it working.