Microsoft KB Archive/156001

= PowerPoint 4.0 Presentations Not Recognized in Exchange Folder =

Article ID: 156001

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q156001



SYMPTOMS
You can drag a PowerPoint 95 presentation from a My Computer or Windows Explorer window to a folder in Microsoft Exchange. That presentation appears as a PowerPoint document when you open the Exchange folder. If you double-click the document, PowerPoint will start and open the presentation.

Similarly, you can drag a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange folder and then double-click it to open the presentation.

However, if you drag a presentation that was saved in PowerPoint 95 as a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange folder, you may receive the following message when you double-click it:

A problem occurred while working with, or connecting to, a linked or an embedded object or its source application.



WORKAROUND
If you want to place a PowerPoint 95 presentation saved in PowerPoint 4.0 format in a Microsoft Exchange folder, you can do the following:
 * 1) In Microsoft Exchange, compose a new message.
 * 2) Drag the PowerPoint presentation from a Windows Explorer window to your new message.
 * 3) Save the new message to the desired folder.

If the destination folder is a public folder, other people can now open your message, double-click the PowerPoint presentation object, and view the presentation.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint version 7.0 for Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 7.0 7.00 w_powerpt powerpt

Keywords: kbinterop KB156001

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