Microsoft KB Archive/944643

= Error message when you try to upload a PowerPoint presentation to a meeting in Live Meeting 2007 or in Live Meeting 2005: &quot;Error while converting slides to the .lmp format&quot; =

Article ID: 944643

Article Last Modified on 11/14/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
 * Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to upload a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 or to Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005, you receive the following error message:

Error while converting slides to the .lmp format.



CAUSE
This issue occurs if the PowerPoint presentation was created in Microsoft PowerPoint 97. PowerPoint 97 presentations are incompatible with the Windows-based Live Meeting client uploader.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods.

Method 1
Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or a later version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint to create the presentation. Then, upload the presentation to the meeting.

Method 2
Use the Live Meeting 4.x/2003 Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint to convert the PowerPoint presentation to a .pwp file. To do this, follow these steps:  Exit PowerPoint. Install the Live Meeting 4.x/2003 Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint. To obtain the add-in, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d39e68f-cc1a-4388-ab50-0a7a380f321c&displaylang=en

 After you install the add-in, open the presentation in PowerPoint. In PowerPoint, click Export as a Live Meeting Slide Set on the Live Meeting menu. In the Explore as a Live Meeting Slide Set dialog box, select the location in which to save the presentation. In the Save as type box, specify the file type as .pwp, and then click Save. In the Export Successful window, click Copy and Dismiss.</li> Upload the PowerPoint presentation to the meeting. To do this, follow these steps: <ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"> Log on to your Live Meeting conference center as an organizer. You will be directed to the My Home page.</li> Under Manage, click Meetings.</li> Click the subject of the meeting to which you want to upload the slides. The Meet Details page appears.</li> Under Meeting Materials, click Import a Presentation. The &quot;Main Uploader: Import Document to Live Meeting&quot; page appears.</li> Click Alternate Uploader.</li> On the &quot;Alternate Uploader: Import Document to Live Meeting&quot; page, either paste the link that you copied in step 7 to the Open box or click Browse to locate the .pwp file that you saved in step 6.</li> Follow the instructions to upload the slides.</li> When you are finished uploading the slides, click Done.</li></ol> </li></ol>

Additional query words: lm7, lm2005

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