Microsoft KB Archive/113018

PPT4: Cannot Edit PowerPoint Objects During Slide Show

PSS ID Number: Q113018 Article last modified on 05-16-1998

windows:4.0,4.0a

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0 and 4.0a == 

= SYMPTOMS =

Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows provides the ability to create two different types of PowerPoint OLE (object-linking-and-embedding) objects:

MS PowerPoint 4.0 Slide MS PowerPoint 4.0 Presentation

If you insert one of these objects into a slide, you can use the Play Settings command to choose which action to take with the object during an on-screen slide show. If you choose the Edit action, nothing will happen when you activate that when running the on-screen slide show.

This behavior occurs for the following two reasons:


 * 1) PowerPoint cannot be in both Slide Show mode and editing mode at the same time.
 * 2) Unlike some other applications, you can’t have a second instance of PowerPoint running at the same time, so that one instance is in Slide Show mode and the other is in editing mode.

= WORKAROUND =

Show the presentation using the PowerPoint Viewer, instead of using PowerPoint itself. Now, when you activate the objects, the Edit action starts PowerPoint with the contents of the object open for editing. When you close PowerPoint, you automatically return to the slide show that is running in the PowerPoint Viewer.

= MORE INFORMATION =

This is useful for people that are delivering on-screen slide shows, where they are teaching someone how to use PowerPoint. This way, they don’t have to keep exiting the slide show and restarting the slide show every time they want to demonstrate a particular topic or feature.

NOTE: PowerPoint 4.0 for the Macintosh is not an OLE server. If you are using the PowerPoint Viewer on the Macintosh to show presentations that were created on PowerPoint for Windows, you will not be able to activate any PowerPoint OLE objects that are in those presentations.

= Additional query words: 4.00 4.00a winppt macppt =

Keywords : kbusage Version : windows:4.0,4.0a Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.