Edit Powerpoint in Word - toolbar is greyed out

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I have a user that is trying to edit a Powerpoint presentation in Word.
We are using Office 97. When she opens the PPP in Word, all the
toolbars are grayed out. This just started happening a few days ago.
She was able to do this before, with full functionality of the toolbars
in Word. I've deleted her normal.dot and recreated her Windows profile
to no avail.
 
I should also note that she saved it as a Word document and it is now
628mb. Which doesn't seem right. I'm looking for ANY ideas on what
might be causing all this and how to proceed.
 
I have a user that is trying to edit a Powerpoint presentation in Word.
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In the name of all that's weird and off-center in this strange universe, WHY?
We are using Office 97. When she opens the PPP in Word, all the
toolbars are grayed out. This just started happening a few days ago.
She was able to do this before, with full functionality of the toolbars
in Word. I've deleted her normal.dot and recreated her Windows profile
to no avail.
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If that was possible, there's more to this story than meets the eye.

It may be that somebody was carefully saving the PPT files as TXT or some other
non-ppt format and opening THOSE in Word.

Word doesn't edit PPT files. That's what PowerPoint is for.
 
If you have created a presentation in PowerPoint, then used the send to word
feature, with Paste links to export to a document. Then you can edit the
slides "from word" by double clicking on a slide image.

You should be aware that you are not really editing them in word, the
computer fooled you with an OLE object. The slides images are brought over
with a link back to the original PPT file. When you "open the slide in
Word", you are telling Word to start PowerPoint, look for the presentation,
open the presentation, and bring up that slide for editing. Word has very
little to do with this problem.

A mere 10 fold increase in file size isn't that bad when using the native
Send To Word functions.

By any chance, does the computer still have PowerPoint installed?
or possibly, did the links get broken/removed?
If you open the PowerPoint file again and resend it to Word, does the
problem go away?


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