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Q156001: PowerPoint 4.0 Presentations Not Recognized in Exchange Folder

Article: Q156001
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:7.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbinterop
Last Modified: 16-APR-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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You can drag a PowerPoint 95 presentation from a My Computer or Windows Explorer
window to a folder in Microsoft Exchange. That presentation appears as a
PowerPoint document when you open the Exchange folder. If you double-click the
document, PowerPoint will start and open the presentation.

Similarly, you can drag a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange
folder and then double-click it to open the presentation.

However, if you drag a presentation that was saved in PowerPoint 95 as a
PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange folder, you may receive the
following message when you double-click it:

  A problem occurred while working with, or connecting to, a linked or an
  embedded object or its source application.

WORKAROUND
==========

If you want to place a PowerPoint 95 presentation saved in PowerPoint 4.0 format
in a Microsoft Exchange folder, you can do the following:

1. In Microsoft Exchange, compose a new message.

2. Drag the PowerPoint presentation from a Windows Explorer window to your new
  message.

3. Save the new message to the desired folder.

If the destination folder is a public folder, other people can now open your
message, double-click the PowerPoint presentation object, and view the
presentation.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint version 7.0 for
Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 7.0 7.00 w_powerpt powerpt

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Keywords          : kbinterop 
Technology        : kbPowerPtSearch kbPowerPt700 kbZNotKeyword2 kbPowerPt700Search
Version           : WINDOWS:7.0

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