Microsoft Office Assistance article correction

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Timothy L

In the following Office Assistance article:

Create and distribute a self-running PowerPoint presentation
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010348171033.aspx

The instructions for "Saving your presentation as a slide show" at the very bottom of the article is backward.

To save a presentation as a slide show, you must click on the "File" menu, then "Save As..." to get to the
Save As dialog first. Then you choose "PowerPoint Show" next to Save as type and lastly click "Save".

In other words, step 2 should become step 1 and step 1 should become step 2.

I have reported this at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suggestions.aspx?Type=1




In addition to this, I found a broken link here:

Order Office Service Packs on CD-ROM
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010383631033.aspx

The link to "Office 2000 Service Release 1a, Service Pack 2, and Service Pack 3 CD ordering form" returns in
error (404 - Not found). I'm assuming that Microsoft is no longer taking orders, but it would be a good idea
to remove the link too.

This one was also reported here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suggestions.aspx?Type=1



And in a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article, a correction might be needed here:

Works: Sharing Works Files with Other Programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271080/#XSLTH3126121122120121120120


Works Spreadsheet can save a worksheet in any of the following files:

- Works 6.0 and Works 7.0 Spreadsheet (.xlr) files.

- NOTE: This is the Microsoft Excel native format.


I'm not 100% sure, but that "note" doesn't sound right to me. I reported the problem at the bottom of the
article.
 
G

Guest

Thanks for reporting those and also mentioning them here, Tim. The broken
link you reported on the service pack order page (Order Office Service Packs
on CD-ROM http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010383631033.aspx) has been
pulled and replaced with the following note:

Office 2000 Service Release 1a, Service Pack 2, and Service Pack 3 are no
longer available on CD.

Hopefully the PPT one will be fixed soon, too.
 
T

Timothy L

Seems that the Microsoft PowerPoint article and the Microsoft Works article have also been fixed.

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Echo S said:
Thanks for reporting those and also mentioning them here, Tim. The broken
link you reported on the service pack order page (Order Office Service Packs
on CD-ROM http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010383631033.aspx) has been
pulled and replaced with the following note:

Office 2000 Service Release 1a, Service Pack 2, and Service Pack 3 are no
longer available on CD.

Hopefully the PPT one will be fixed soon, too.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '05
Sept 25-28, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



Timothy L said:
In the following Office Assistance article:

Create and distribute a self-running PowerPoint presentation
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010348171033.aspx

The instructions for "Saving your presentation as a slide show" at the very bottom of the article is backward.

To save a presentation as a slide show, you must click on the "File" menu, then "Save As..." to get to the
Save As dialog first. Then you choose "PowerPoint Show" next to Save as type and lastly click "Save".

In other words, step 2 should become step 1 and step 1 should become step 2.

I have reported this at:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suggestions.aspx?Type=1




In addition to this, I found a broken link here:

Order Office Service Packs on CD-ROM
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010383631033.aspx

The link to "Office 2000 Service Release 1a, Service Pack 2, and Service Pack 3 CD ordering form" returns in
error (404 - Not found). I'm assuming that Microsoft is no longer taking orders, but it would be a good idea
to remove the link too.

This one was also reported here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suggestions.aspx?Type=1



And in a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article, a correction might be needed here:

Works: Sharing Works Files with Other Programs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271080/#XSLTH3126121122120121120120


Works Spreadsheet can save a worksheet in any of the following files:

- Works 6.0 and Works 7.0 Spreadsheet (.xlr) files.

- NOTE: This is the Microsoft Excel native format.


I'm not 100% sure, but that "note" doesn't sound right to me. I reported the problem at the bottom of the
article.
 
E

Echo S

Glad to hear it!

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


Timothy L said:
Seems that the Microsoft PowerPoint article and the Microsoft Works article have also been fixed.

--
Please post all replies to the newsgroup for the benefit of others.
Requests for assistance by email will NOT be acknowledged!



Thanks for reporting those and also mentioning them here, Tim. The broken
link you reported on the service pack order page (Order Office Service Packs
on CD-ROM http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010383631033.aspx) has been
pulled and replaced with the following note:

Office 2000 Service Release 1a, Service Pack 2, and Service Pack 3 are no
longer available on CD.

Hopefully the PPT one will be fixed soon, too.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '05
Sept 25-28, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



Timothy L said:
In the following Office Assistance article:

Create and distribute a self-running PowerPoint presentation
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010348171033.aspx

The instructions for "Saving your presentation as a slide show" at the
very bottom of the article is
backward.
Service Pack 3 CD ordering form" returns
taking orders, but it would be a good
 

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