You have to turn it off in your virus scanning software. Do you have
Norton? In NAV go to Options > Other > Misc and turn off the Office add-in.
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Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Autorun CD and free templates)
"jkmassel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> in powerpoint 2003 every time I try to apply a design template, powerpoint
runs a virus scan on it before it puts it in. This slows things down quite
a bit. Is there a way to turn off the automatic virus scanning?