Article ID: 171632
Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q171632
SYMPTOMS
When you open a playlist (.lst) file, which lists presentations whose file
names include spaces, you receive the following error message:
PowerPoint Viewer cannot read <filename.ppt>.
where <filename.ppt> represents a word in the filename. For example, If
the first file in the playlist file is
you will receive the following three error messages:
PowerPoint Viewer cannot read My.ppt
PowerPoint Viewer cannot read New.ppt
PowerPoint Viewer cannot read Presentation.ppt
CAUSE
PowerPoint Viewer 97 reads the file name up to the space and then attempts
to open the file. Because the file does not exist, the error message
appears.
RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, insert quotation marks around the file name.
For example, change a playlist file that looks like this:
My New Presentation.ppt
test.ppt
My best presentation ever.ppt
to:
"My New Presentation.ppt"
test.ppt
"My best presentation ever.ppt"
For more information about creating play lists, click the Office
Assistant, type
playlist, click Search, and then click to view "Create a
play list to run presentations from the PowerPoint Viewer."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the
Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component
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