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 Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: urgent help needed regarding powerpoint files |
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hey, someone out there, i need to get somewhere in the next two hours, and that means looking at a map, and that map is only available to me in powerpoint format for some fucking hideous reason.
is there anyone who can help me either open this map myself (using some kind of converter, perhaps) or who can open it himself and make me a jpg of the map?
quick!! please!! |
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Guardian FINAL
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I think I can do that from here, Tim. A bmp, at least.
Send the file to sns1@alfred.edu, or just link it for me. I'll be quick. |
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108
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Yes!
I have sent it away. That was fast as all hell.
Now I need to shave.
So . . . I guess this topic is kind of dead, then.
Or maybe not:
. . . who the hell makes a map a Powerpoint file?
Also, in the email to which the map is attached, the phone number ("in case you have any question") is incomplete by one digit. Did they want me to email them back (last Thursday, when I should have seen the message, if I would have had regular internet access) and say, "Hey, Powerpoint? I don't have that. And the phone number is missing a digit." I think maybe they did.
They would have every reason to.
It was a test for me, and these people have a reason to test me, I guess. |
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, since that's already taken care of anyway... I believe OpenOffice supports Powerpoint files, for future reference. |
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Persona-sama
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Tim is joining the Men in Black!
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Guardian FINAL
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Uh, PowerPoint doesn't seem to like the file. It may be corrupt, but the preview shows up okay. I don't know. Someone else volunteer. I'm looking for a conversion fix or something. |
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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I can try it... I have Office 2000, though I doubt the result will be any different. Also, if it's huge, I'm on 56k...
Contact info below. |
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108
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i dont have AIM over here, that's how much this computer sucks.
what's your email address???
i'm getting dressed. |
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Panoptic
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Guardian FINAL
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Now I have a converter that doesn't work. |
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Got it. Big image. Pic is on the way. |
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108
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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it's sent. the damn thing is about 400 KB, though. hell!!
if this is a fake ppt file, that'd just be fucking hilarious.
edit:
shit, i'm amazed by how quickly this worked.
we have an actual, thriving internet forum right here, i guess. |
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Guardian FINAL
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Panoptic wrote:
Got it. Big image. Pic is on the way.
what's your secret?
oh, and i'll add to the unanimous powerpoint hate. |
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Panoptic
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sent.
Guardian: Opened on the first try. Your copy probably got corrupted on the way. |
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108
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well, shit.
This reminds me of the time me and Persona got that postcard from Sony with that complicated, impossible address on it.
That address happened to be Dodger Stadium.
Why not just say "Dodger Stadium"?
I mean, I . . . know this building, already. They could have just given me the address in an email. I think they ARE purposely being difficult. |
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