Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: WF and PPT issue
Poster: neilmac
I came up against an issue when translating a PPTX file this week. I'm using Wordfast Classic, as usual, and when I try to save the PPTX, I get a message something like this ": “Powerpoint has detected an error that cannot be resolved. Save the presentations, exit and reboot Powerpoint.” However, when I try to do this, it will not let me save or even close without saving, and the only way to get out of the program seems to be to unplug the computer.
The funny thing is that the first 15 pages or slides of the PPTX file have saved correctly; it seems to only be the second half of the file which is causing the problem. If I modify the PPTX manually rather than with Wordfast, it lets me save the file no problem. I have very little technical knowledge but this sounds to me like some sort of incompatibility between Wordfast and PowerPoint, maybe something to do with the Visual Basic thing, which I don't really understand.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or solution? At the moment I'm considering just doing it manually, as it shouldn't take more than an hour, but I would still like to be able to deal with this kind of problem in the future.
Topic: WF and PPT issue
Poster: neilmac
I came up against an issue when translating a PPTX file this week. I'm using Wordfast Classic, as usual, and when I try to save the PPTX, I get a message something like this ": “Powerpoint has detected an error that cannot be resolved. Save the presentations, exit and reboot Powerpoint.” However, when I try to do this, it will not let me save or even close without saving, and the only way to get out of the program seems to be to unplug the computer.
The funny thing is that the first 15 pages or slides of the PPTX file have saved correctly; it seems to only be the second half of the file which is causing the problem. If I modify the PPTX manually rather than with Wordfast, it lets me save the file no problem. I have very little technical knowledge but this sounds to me like some sort of incompatibility between Wordfast and PowerPoint, maybe something to do with the Visual Basic thing, which I don't really understand.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or solution? At the moment I'm considering just doing it manually, as it shouldn't take more than an hour, but I would still like to be able to deal with this kind of problem in the future.