Microsoft KB Archive/228575

= PPT2000: PowerPoint Stops Responding When You Open an HTML File =

Article ID: 228575

Article Last Modified on 9/12/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q228575



SYMPTOMS
When you open a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint may stop responding (hang).



CAUSE
This behavior can occur when the HTML file that you are attempting to open contains an HTML Object tag. PowerPoint may go into a loop and stop responding when it encounters an Object tag.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, open the HTML file in an HTML editor, such as Microsoft FrontPage, and remove the Object tag and the contents within the tag.

NOTE: You may want to save the file under a new name to preserve the contents of the original file. Now when you open the file in PowerPoint, the HTML file opens as expected, but without the object.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in PowerPoint 2000. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office XP.

Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB228575

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