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JoAnn Paules - 05 Jul 2007 16:07 GMT

(Posted in the office.misc group earlier.)

I have been working on a PowerPoint presentation that my boss uses to lead a
training session. We're getting rid of the horrendous animations and
standardizing the look of the document.

When I double-click on some of the photos, I get the following message:
"The server application, source file, or item can't be found, or returned an
unknown error. You may need to reinstall the server application."

I get this on about half of the pictures and the rest are fine. Can anyone
explain what might be going on? I can get around this error by doing a right
click and saving the picture but what caused it?

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TAJ Simmons - 05 Jul 2007 16:20 GMT

JoAnn

see
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office XP Released
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00339.htm

and
Can't edit Org Chart, Graph, Excel (error msg: "server application, source
file, or item can't be found")
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00236.htm

You might be able to fix each picture

by selecting the picture

edit menu > copy

edit menu > paste special > picture

then delete the original offending item

cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
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> (Posted in the office.misc group earlier.)
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> explain what might be going on? I can get around this error by doing a
> right click and saving the picture but what caused it?

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JoAnn Paules - 05 Jul 2007 17:09 GMT

So maybe they were copied from a Word file into the PowerPoint file? I can
see that happening. People seem to think that they need to insert .jpgs into
a word doc to send them to somebody else.

Thanks for the help. :-)

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>> anyone explain what might be going on? I can get around this error by
>> doing a right click and saving the picture but what caused it?

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Steve Rindsberg - 05 Jul 2007 20:47 GMT

> So maybe they were copied from a Word file into the PowerPoint file?

Or some other application, one you don't have, yes.

If you do macros, looking at the Shape's .Type will tell you whether it's an
OLE object or something else, and if it's an OLE object, its OLEProgId will
tell you the app that spawned it.

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