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Error in MS power point

In MS PowerPoint 2013, i opened a file from the shared drive
and getting this error while trying to save

PowerPoint was unable to open or save this document. Please ensure that you have access privileges to read or write the document and that it is not encrypted

please help?
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Yes Krishna, its just the case of permission, agree with Abbas.
@Author - do you know the password of the file. if not then you are not the eligible user for it. meaning it is not for your eyes. Get yourself a password and then you can see it. This is called access control. :)
Is the file open in PowerPoint? If so, choose File, Save As (or Save a Copy if that's the option you have), then, as the others have said, navigate to a different folder (preferably one on your hard drive instead of a file share) and save the file. You might try your Library\Documents folder.
I have the Same Issue. It seems to have something to do with the embedded Excel Sheets.

- I think the Link from Mahima is not for Office 2013 but for Office 2010. For me the Tipps there haven't solved the issue
- File/ Save as... is not working. as you get the same error message
- You might be able to copy every slide into a new and Save this. But this is not a solution and very impractical.
- The User rights are not the cause in my case, as it's possible to access the file, but the file gets read only at some point while working.
  If this happens you can't even save a copy to the Desktop, or anywhere else be it local or remote
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jasmine saluja

I faced the same issue. I think Microsoft needs to make few changes in this. although they already mentioned this issue in terms and conditions.

For resolving the problem I copied all the slides and pasted them to a new blank power point and was able to save it to any location. yes this is impractical but worked well for me.