Microsoft KB Archive/135021

= Earlier PowerPoint Objects Available After Office 7.0 Install =

Article ID: 135021

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c

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This article was previously published under Q135021



SYMPTOMS
When you install the Microsoft Office version 7.0 upgrade on a computer that contains an earlier version of Office, the following object types may still be available in the Object dialog box in the Microsoft Office products listed at the beginning of this article:

MS PowerPoint 3.0 Presentation

MS PowerPoint 3.0 Slide

MS PowerPoint 4.0 Presentation

MS PowerPoint 4.0 Slide



CAUSE
This behavior occurs when you install the Microsoft Office upgrade without first removing the earlier version of Office. This problem occurs whether you install Office version 7.0 to the folder that contains the earlier version of Office or to a different folder. Note that the object types shown above appear only in earlier versions of the Office applications, not the version 7.0 Office applications. The Microsoft PowerPoint version 7.0 objects (Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation and Microsoft PowerPoint Slide) appear correctly in the Object dialog box in all versions of the applications.

For example, if you install Microsoft Office version 7.0 to a different folder than the Office version 4.0 folder, when you run an Office version 7.0 application, the MS PowerPoint 3.0 Presentation and MS PowerPoint 3.0 Slide object types are no longer available. However, when you run Microsoft Excel version 5.0 or Microsoft Word version 6.0, the MS PowerPoint 3.0 Presentation and MS PowerPoint 3.0 Slide object types are available.

Note however that when you choose to insert one of the Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 objects, a Microsoft PowerPoint 7.0 object is inserted instead.

This behavior does not affect the functionality of inserting a Microsoft PowerPoint object. When you install the Office 7.0 upgrade, the 7.0 version of the Office application becomes the OLE server and editor for that application. Even if an earlier version of the application is installed on your computer, all of the OLE objects for that application will be created and edited using the current version.

Additional query words: OFF7 old older

Keywords: kbinterop kbprb KB135021

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