Microsoft Forms Error Message

[cdm]

Hello: I'm having the following problem (This problem was reported at
the end of 2004 without any fix posted to the group)... I'm including
the messages below dealing with this that I found in this group:

I am running OfficeXP (powerpoint 2002). I have SP3 installed

I was able to open the powerpoint after reinstalling and clicking many
times, but the message still comes up and I have to click a zillion
times to open a blank powerpoint presentation.

Can someone please help?

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karm56
Aug 24 2004, 4:01 pm

Hi Geetesh- I uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2003 and
downloaded/installed the
update. All went well. When I open PPT 2003, I still get the message,
"Could
not load an object because it is not available on this machine." error
message with 'Microsoft Forms' in the title bar. If I press the OK
button 4
times (the dialog box keeps reappearing) PPT opens on the 5th click.


I was at my wife's school today and took the disc (It's a Literature
Book
publisher's PPT presentation disc for various forms of writng) with me.
She
has the same Toshiba satellite laptop as me so I insert it into her
machine
and PPT opens it just fine with no error. This is drivin' me nuts!


Mark

Mark, it seems that the presentation has an ActiveX object on one of the
slides - and you probably don't have that particular ActiveX control on your
system. It could be the Microsoft Forms ActiveX control based on the info
you provided - but when I checked on my system there are many Microsoft
Forms controls installed.

If that content is not very important, find out which slide contains that
control and delete it. Then resave the presentation.

Although you do mention you are using PowerPoint 2003 in your earlier post,
I want to make sure you are not using PowerPoint 2003 Viewer to view the
presentation - since the new 2003 Viewer does not support ActiveX controls.
The earlier PowerPoint 97 Viewer however did support ActiveX controls - and
you can still download it from Microsoft's site:

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 for Windows - http://snipurl.com/ppview97

Do get back and let us know if this helps your problem.

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Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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Rich
Oct 18 2004, 12:29 pm show options

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Hi I'm having the same problem. A dialog box which has Microsoft
Forms in
the title bar. The message in the box is "Could not load an object
bacause
it is not available on this machine"
This happened after I ran the recent update of Snagit. Running Office
2003,
O/S is XP SP2. Any ideas out there? Thanks Rich

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Visit www.google.com and enter "could not load an object"
(exactly that text, including the quote marks)

That will give you several leads, all of which suggest that whoever created the
presentation included a control that's not installed on your computer.