PPTools
Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to high-quality images.
Shape Styles brings styles to PowerPoint. Apply complex formatting with a single click.
Merge Excel data into PowerPoint presentations to create certificates, awards presentations, personalized presentations and more
FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations
Optimizer saves disk space and bandwidth, "right-sizes" your PowerPoint presentations for email, screenshow or printing
PPT2HTML gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements
Prep4PDF preserves interactivity in PowerPoint presentations when you convert to PDF
"PowerPoint couldn't translate this file" when opening presentation in PPT97
This is probably a PowerPoint 7 (aka PowerPoint 95) presentation. Normally, PPT97 can open these without trouble, but if there are corrupted elements in the file, you can encounter this message.
See the troubleshooting suggestions on this page at microsoft.com
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