Microsoft KB Archive/813720

= You receive a &quot;Some controls on this presentation cannot be activated&quot; error message when you use PowerPoint 97 to open a presentation from PowerPoint 2003 or from PowerPoint 2007 =

Article ID: 813720

Article Last Modified on 6/6/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to open a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 orMicrosoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation that contains multiple slide masters, you may receive the following error message:

Some controls on this presentation cannot be activated. They may not be registered on this machine.

Although you can open the presentation, you may receive the following error message when you try to start the Microsoft Visual Basic Editor:

PowerPoint found an error that it can't correct. You should save presentations, exit, and then restart PowerPoint.

This symptom may occur if the following conditions are true:
 * The presentation was created with PowerPoint 2003 or PowerPoint 2007.
 * The presentation contains multiple slide masters.
 * The second slide master contains a Microsoft ActiveX &quot;SlideMasterCustomDesign&quot; component.



CAUSE
This issue occurs because PowerPoint 97 does not support the naming convention that is used by PowerPoint 2003 and by PowerPoint 2007 for the ActiveX components in multiple slide masters. PowerPoint 97 expects the first Visual Basic project for the slide master to be named &quot;SlideMaster.&quot; However, the control on the secondary slide master is named &quot;SlideMasterCustomDesign.&quot;



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, open the presentation in PowerPoint 2002, in PowerPoint 2003, or in PowerPoint 2007.



MORE INFORMATION
A presentation that you create in PowerPoint 2002, in PowerPoint 2003, or in PowerPoint 2007 may contain features that are not compatible with earlier versions of PowerPoint.

Additional query words: PPT PPT2003 PPT2007 PPT97

Keywords: kbstartprogram kbopenfile kberrmsg kbprb KB813720

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