Why are most features greyed out in my education powerpoint

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rigby_chip - 01 Jun 2006 19:09 GMT

I have just started to use my educational version of power point and most of
the useful features are greyed out and are unavailable. For example I can
load a presentation but I cant add new slides nor can I insert anything in to
slides.

The product details are Powerpoint 2003, part of microsoft office standard
edition version 11.5529.5606.

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Kathy Jacobs - 01 Jun 2006 19:25 GMT

Did you activate your copy of PPT?

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>I have just started to use my educational version of power point and most
>of
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> The product details are Powerpoint 2003, part of microsoft office standard
> edition version 11.5529.5606.

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rigby_chip - 01 Jun 2006 22:23 GMT

I tried to delte and re install but still when i click on activate nothing
happens. What should happen I presume an internet connection is required and
that is working OK. Thanks for the quick reply by the way/

> Did you activate your copy of PPT?
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> > The product details are Powerpoint 2003, part of microsoft office standard
> > edition version 11.5529.5606.

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Kathy Jacobs - 03 Jun 2006 12:23 GMT

Ok - Let's look at this from another angle. Do the other Office Standard
applications (Word or Excel) allow you to create and save new documents?

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>I tried to delte and re install but still when i click on activate nothing
> happens. What should happen I presume an internet connection is required
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Ute Simon - 01 Jun 2006 21:10 GMT

> For example I can
> load a presentation but I cant add new slides nor can I insert anything in
> to
> slides.

Is it your own presentation or did you try this with someone else's
presentation? If the latter, it could be password-protected and thus not
editable. Please try the same with a blank presentation.

Best regards,
Ute

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Echo S - 02 Jun 2006 05:43 GMT

Does this happen with one file or all files?

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rigby_chip - 03 Jun 2006 10:43 GMT

It happens with all files I can access but it wont let me create new files
either.

> Does this happen with one file or all files?
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> > The product details are Powerpoint 2003, part of microsoft office standard
> > edition version 11.5529.5606.

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Echo S - 03 Jun 2006 15:20 GMT

Okay, then it sounds as if you do need to activate it.

Are you trying to activate a trial version of Office? Many computers come
with a trial version installed, and it expires after oh, 50 uses, I think it
is. After that, you have to purchase Office if you want to continue to use
it.

If you did purchase Office and are not seeing the number to call to
activate, see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326851 for more info

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> It happens with all files I can access but it wont let me create new files
> either.
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>> > standard
>> > edition version 11.5529.5606.

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