Excel Embedded in Powerpoint lost

[Guest]

I have an (inherited) Powerpoint presentation based on 12 embedded (not
linked) Excel sheets. This seems a very unstable solution.

Reçently we converted to Office 2003. Now the embedded excel sheets won't
work.
- First Powerpoint proposes to "fix the problem" by reinstalling something.
- Secondly (after the fix), Powerpoint says there's not enough memory.

My outsourced HP tech support augmented the virtual memory and says it's not
a
memory problem (even though he didn't propose to increase the physical
memory).

The support guy insists it's due to som links in the embedded excel sheet,
which point to a no longer existing directory on a network drive. This
happened before, to me, but never blocked opening an Excel file.

Does anyone have a clue to recoveryng the object or converting it to an
Excel sheet ?

 

[Shyam Pillai]

I wouldn't mind taking a look at the file if you can mail it to me - Shyam
At MVPs dot Org

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You'll want to start any of your Office apps and choose Help, Check for Updates
and let MS update your Office installation for you. There were problems with
the originally shipped version of PPT.

Have a look here also:

Extracting Excel content from PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00670.htm