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Gary Hime - 03 Aug 2005 04:23 GMT

I am in an academic department where we run a Windows XP Professional
network. Several of us have experienced a problem when our department
upgraded from Office XP to Office 2003. Various embedded image files in
Powerpoint presentations displayed the "little red X" instead of the image.
This appears to be a profile related problem and not a Powerpoint file
problem - see below.
A problem slide will view OK when opened in some user profiles but not in
others, this is not workstation dependent. The file is not damaged as after
saving a file with "red X's" it can be transferred to another user's profile
and opened without problem. This appears not restricted to Powerpoint but
also occurs with images embedded in Word 2003.

What is the problem with Office 2003 and (some) XP profiles?

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Echo S - 03 Aug 2005 04:30 GMT

I don't know what the problem is, Gary. In fact, here's what we do know
about the Red X problem:

RED X instead of graphics
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00064.htm

You will want to make sure everyone has installed SP1 for Office 2003. It
fixes a lot of these weird image display issues also. Open PPT, go to
Help/About, and if you don't see SP1 at the end of the line with the version
of PPT, then go to Help/Check for Updates and install SP1.

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> I am in an academic department where we run a Windows XP Professional
> network. Several of us have experienced a problem when our department
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> What is the problem with Office 2003 and (some) XP profiles?

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