Embedded Excel 2003 Worksheet in PowerPoint 2003

[Andre]

Hi,
I have asked this before, but couldn't get my situation corrected. It was
suggested that I perfrom a detect and repair, and that seemed to work, but
not for long.

The situation:
I have a PowerPoint 2003 slide, in which I insert an Excel workbook. This
can be 'Create New' or 'Create From File', it doesn't seem to matter. Once
embedded, when I 'Left-click' my mouse in the open embedded workbook, nothing
happens, unless I have an Excel 2003 worksheet open on my desktop. Then,
when I click in the open embedded worksheet, the open Excel workbook suddenly
becomes active and pops to the front of my screen. With the embedded object
open, I can use my cursor keys to navigate the worksheet, or scroll with my
mouse wheel, or 'Right-click' and select from the resulting menu, but that
left mouse click doesn't work. Very frustrating.

Any help would be appreciated. If someone wants to see what happens, I
would be happy to send an example file.

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

Andre, this is not how I have ever seen it work. Feel free to send me
a simple file that is broken and I will have a look at it.
Send to brian somewhereAT Reillyand.com
I think you will know how to change that address into a real email
address.. Please place PowerPoint in the subject so I don't just erase
it with the other 1000+ SPAM msgs I get per day.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Andre]

Hi Brian,
I have just sent you a simple test file. Please let me know if you receive
it. I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Yours,
Andre