Default save on exit for ppt should be 'do save' not 'don't save'

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publicityshy - 12 Sep 2005 11:13 GMT

when you exit most MS programmes you get a prompt 'do you want to save
changes'. Usually this defaults to 'yes' so you hit enter to save before you
exit and lose the changes. Strangely, with powerpoint, it defaults to 'no'.
I've now lost count of the number of times I've lost changes by just hitting
'enter'. Most times I exit I will want to save changes I've made, so this
should be the default. At the very least all MS products should be
consistent, whichever way.

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Ute Simon - 12 Sep 2005 12:43 GMT

> when you exit most MS programmes you get a prompt 'do you want to save
> changes'. Usually this defaults to 'yes' so you hit enter to save before you
> exit and lose the changes. Strangely, with powerpoint, it defaults to 'no'.

I don't know whether you'll read this reply at all, or which version of
PowerPoint you use. But in my PowerPoint 2003 (German), it defaults to yes,
as it should.

Kind regards,
Ute

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Michael Koerner - 12 Sep 2005 13:29 GMT

Does for the English version also. This may have been one of the glitches
fixed with the release of SP1

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>> when you exit most MS programmes you get a prompt 'do you want to save
>> changes'. Usually this defaults to 'yes' so you hit enter to save before
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> Kind regards,
> Ute

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CaptainChris - 11 Aug 2006 18:48 GMT

Hi,

this happens in Powerpoint 2003 SP2, too, and I do not believe it is to do
with the version: The very same powerpoint installation defaults to "yes"
with one presentation and "no" with another. The "no"-presentation keeps that
behaviour on a different computer, and it turned out that it was created
using a different template than blank.pot. So it is likely it has something
to do with the template it stems from, but we aren't any closer then that to
a real solution either. Maybe this points a direction though.

Chris

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