Visual Basic

[Guest]

I just purchased and installed Office 2003 on my system. I had Office 97
before and removed it before installing 2003. When I run Power Point I get a
message saying "Power Point couoldn't open the visual basic for applications
project in presentation D:/Microsoft Office/Office/ppmusic.ppa. It wants me
to remove it and then I can use it by going to help.
How do I get the program to work correctly and not cause the problem. It's a
new install of Office 2003 and it should all work correctly.
Waiting for your help.

Thanks....
Rick

 

[Michael Koerner]

Make sure you also install the SP for 2003

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I just purchased and installed Office 2003 on my system. I had Office 97
before and removed it before installing 2003. When I run Power Point I get a
message saying "Power Point couoldn't open the visual basic for applications
project in presentation D:/Microsoft Office/Office/ppmusic.ppa. It wants me
to remove it and then I can use it by going to help.
How do I get the program to work correctly and not cause the problem. It's a
new install of Office 2003 and it should all work correctly.
Waiting for your help.

Thanks....
Rick

 

[Bill Foley]

Try opening PowerPoint, clicking "Tools", "Macro", "Security" and set your
security to MEDIUM.

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I just purchased and installed Office 2003 on my system. I had Office 97
before and removed it before installing 2003. When I run Power Point I get a
message saying "Power Point couoldn't open the visual basic for applications
project in presentation D:/Microsoft Office/Office/ppmusic.ppa. It wants me
to remove it and then I can use it by going to help.
How do I get the program to work correctly and not cause the problem. It's a
new install of Office 2003 and it should all work correctly.
Waiting for your help.

The installer for 2003 "migrated' your earlier settings to the new install,
including installed add-ins. That's what that ppmusic.ppa thing is.

As I recall, it's not compatible with later PPT versions, so you'll need to
remove it. The simplest way to do that is to delete or rename the file to e.g.
ppmusic.bak

It then won't try to load itself at startup and you shouldn't have to listen to
PPT2003 barking at it any more.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steve that worked as well as using the help disable items. Its sitting
there as a disabled addin. Now one other thing... When I run .pps files and
have them finish I get a setup error message as they end. It seems to work
fine but the setup error has me puzzled? Any idea about that?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks Steve that worked as well as using the help disable items. Its sitting
there as a disabled addin. Now one other thing... When I run .pps files and
have them finish I get a setup error message as they end. It seems to work
fine but the setup error has me puzzled? Any idea about that?

Not offhand, but

1) What's the exact text of the error message and
2) At exactly what point does it occur

 

[Guest]

The error message appears on the bottom line of my screen (the line with
Start) and happens every time I run a *.pps file. The file runs fine but when
it finishes and just as it closes the file and returns me to the directory I
clicked to get it to run I get a message tone (bing) and then a message on
the line saying "setup error" then it goes away and evereything seems fine
until I run the next *.pps file. Always the same message at the same time???
A real puzzle..

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The error message appears on the bottom line of my screen (the line with
Start) and happens every time I run a *.pps file. The file runs fine but when
it finishes and just as it closes the file and returns me to the directory I
clicked to get it to run I get a message tone (bing) and then a message on
the line saying "setup error" then it goes away and evereything seems fine
until I run the next *.pps file. Always the same message at the same time???
A real puzzle..

Did you have any other addins installed before upgrading to 2003?
Are there any listed when you choose Tools, Addins?

It's odd that anything appears on the task bar (the thing with the start button).
PowerPoint doesn't put anything there as a rule, but you might be seeing the title bar
text of a message box.

Let's try this: get to the last or next to last slide of your presentation, then instae
of quitting, use Alt+Tab to cycle among the various other windows. Do you see any odd
ones?

 

[Guest]

I looked in the addins and nothing there. I also tried the Alt Tab and
nothing there either. Just all the programs that are running at that time
show up. Could it be that the *.pps files are from eirlier versions of power
point and that is causing the setup error message to appear? I don't know...

 

[Guest]

I have found what might have something to do with the problem. If I am in
Power Point and run a *.pps file it works fine and no setup error message. If
I am outside Power Point and then just click on a file wirh a *.pps extension
the file runs ... but... after it finishes I get the setup error message. Its
like the program can't find the Power Point program or something. Hope that
helps you with your effort.
Thanks for not giving up on me.
Rick

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I looked in the addins and nothing there. I also tried the Alt Tab and
nothing there either. Just all the programs that are running at that time
show up. Could it be that the *.pps files are from eirlier versions of power
point and that is causing the setup error message to appear? I don't know...

Files from earlier versions of PPT wouldn't cause this, that's not it.

OK, some more homework questions for ya. ;-)

1) Does this happen with ALL PPS files or just certain ones? What if you start PPT,
add one slide to a new presentation, then save it as PPS. Quit PPT, doubleclick the
new file. What happens?

2) Now rename the same file to give it a PPT extension. Doubleclick to start it, go
into slide show view, stop the slide show. Any funny business?

The error message appears on the bottom line of my screen (the line with
Start) and happens every time I run a *.pps file. The file runs fine but when
it finishes and just as it closes the file and returns me to the directory I
clicked to get it to run I get a message tone (bing) and then a message on
the line saying "setup error" then it goes away and evereything seems fine
until I run the next *.pps file. Always the same message at the same time???
A real puzzle..

Did you have any other addins installed before upgrading to 2003?
Are there any listed when you choose Tools, Addins?

It's odd that anything appears on the task bar (the thing with the start button).
PowerPoint doesn't put anything there as a rule, but you might be seeing the title bar
text of a message box.

Let's try this: get to the last or next to last slide of your presentation, then instae
of quitting, use Alt+Tab to cycle among the various other windows. Do you see any odd
ones?

:

Thanks Steve that worked as well as using the help disable items. Its sitting
there as a disabled addin. Now one other thing... When I run .pps files and
have them finish I get a setup error message as they end. It seems to work
fine but the setup error has me puzzled? Any idea about that?

Not offhand, but

1) What's the exact text of the error message and
2) At exactly what point does it occur



:

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have found what might have something to do with the problem. If I am in
Power Point and run a *.pps file it works fine and no setup error message. If
I am outside Power Point and then just click on a file wirh a *.pps extension
the file runs ... but... after it finishes I get the setup error message. Its
like the program can't find the Power Point program or something. Hope that
helps you with your effort.
Thanks for not giving up on me.

That's good info Rick. Thanks ... so another bit of homework -- follow the instrux here to
re-register PPT:

Changing a File Association, Repairing broken File Associations
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00355.htm