Microsoft KB Archive/894690

= You may receive an &quot;A security problem has occurred&quot; error message when you click a hyperlink in PowerPoint 2002 =

Article ID: 894690

Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. A Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 presentation resides on a Web server that requires a password for access. You click a hyperlink in the presentation. The hyperlink starts with the characters &quot;https://.&quot; You may receive the following error message:

A security problem has occurred.



How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the PowerPoint 2002 post-Service Pack 3 Hotfix Package released on February 24, 2005. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

894877 Description of the PowerPoint 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 24, 2005

To enable this hotfix, follow these steps:  Quit PowerPoint 2002. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click to select the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\PowerPoint\Options

 After you select the key that is specified in step 3, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD. Type EnableDialogInHLinkNav, and then press ENTER. Right-click EnableDialogInHLinkNav, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.</li> On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.</li></ol>

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: PPT2002 PPTXP

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbhotfixserver KB894690

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