Microsoft KB Archive/226597

= PPT2000: Cannot Activate Embedded Web Presentation From Inside a Presentation =

Article ID: 226597

Article Last Modified on 8/6/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q226597



SYMPTOMS
If you insert a PowerPoint 2000 Web presentation into a standard presentation as an embedded object and you try to activate it either by double-clicking on it, choosing Activate Contents from the context menu, or by clicking on the icon while in slide show, you get one of the following error messages:  If you have inserted the  into the presentation, the browser displays the "File not found" error page.

Where  is the name of the presentation, followed by the .htm extension. If you have inserted one the individual slide pages, then you receive the following error message at least once:

A Runtime Error has occurred.

/> Do you wish to Debug?

Line:

Error:

When you click No, you receive a blank slide with the background color of the Web presentation.

refers to the line number the error occurred at.

refers to the error found at the above line number.

In either case, you will receive this first warning:

You are about to activate an inserted object that might contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your computer.

Make sure the object if from a trustworthy source.

Do you want to continue?



CAUSE
The HTML document format is not a supported OLE format. It is not designed to be inserted into another document as an HTML document.



Convert to Standard Presentation
This the recommended method for inserting a presentation into another file. To convert to a standard presentation, follow these steps:
 * 1) Open the Web presentation in PowerPoint 2000.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Save As.
 * 3) Change the Save as Type to Presentation (*.ppt)
 * 4) Click OK.

You can now insert this standard presentation into another standard presentation as an embedded object.

Additional query words: PPT2K PPT2000 PPT POWERPNT 2000 PPT9 9.0

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix kbhtml KB226597

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