Embedding powerpoints in Excel

[pyrnewf]

Somehow my powerpoints are being converted to slideshows when I embed them as
an object in excel. Does anyone know how to reverse this or at least turn it
off?

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Do you mean they run as a slideshow when you activate them? Right click on
the object| Presentation Object| Edit. That will activate them to edit, if
that is what you want. Else, can you provide more details, please?

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com

 

[pyrnewf]

HI Glen, Thanks for your post. Yes - when I double click on the embedded
powerpoint, it automatically opens up in slide show mode. I have to back out
of it and then right click to go into edit mode to be able to see normally
and to be able to update. Also, it seems that whatever I did to make that
happen has contaminated all of the other ones I had embedded and also turned
them into slide show version as well. ( I had about 30 fiiles embedded in a
table - powerpoint, word and other excel files)

I thought there might be a hidden addition to the file name so I imported
the file again as a ppt file with quotes around it (as per the help site) but
when I clicked on it again, it still went into slideshow mode.

Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.

I am tearing my hair out as this has already cost me a days worth of work on
a 7gb toolkit I was putting together.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Well, I just discovered I have the same problem. So, I wondered if changing
the object by converting it to something else would help.

I changed the object action via Converting within Excel rather than just how
to open it. Totally destroyed how Excel could open the presentation, so
fraught with danger. Now it wont insert any type of presentation. Detect and
repair didn't to help.............. More work to do this end.

<groan>



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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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[pyrnewf]

Oh no - I hope you don't fully end up where I am!! I thought that somehow, I
had converted to a slide show and tried to convert back - which it did but
only page 1 of many.