PowerPoint Thinks there's a Macro

[Guest]

Hello all,

I have a PPT file in which an earlier version contained a Macro. I have since removed it and there are no modules or code of any sort when I go into the VBA editor. However, PPT (2002) still asks me if I want to enable macros when I open this file. This happens with all derivates of this file and I'm getting complaints from people I send this to. Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00169.htm should help.

 

[Guest]

Appreciate the link, but the problem is that there is no code left to delete in VBE and yet PPT still thinks there are macros.

Any other suggestions?
--
Charlie

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00169.htm should help.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Hello all,

I have a PPT file in which an earlier version contained a Macro. I have since removed it and there are no modules or code of any sort when I go into the VBA editor. However, PPT (2002) still asks me if I want to enable macros when I open this file. This happens with all derivates of this file and I'm getting complaints from people I send this to. Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

So you don't even have any empty modules in the VBE?
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Appreciate the link, but the problem is that there is no code left to delete in VBE and yet PPT still thinks there are macros.

Any other suggestions?
--
Charlie

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00169.htm should help.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com

Hello all,

I have a PPT file in which an earlier version contained a Macro. I have since removed it and there are no modules or code of any sort when I go into the VBA editor. However, PPT (2002) still asks me if I want to enable macros when I open this file. This happens with all derivates of this file and I'm getting complaints from people I send this to. Suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

When PowerPoint asks you if you want to enable macros, click on the
button to disable macros and save the file again under a different name.
That should strip out any macros that might be in there.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Appreciate the link, but the problem is that there is no code left to delete in

VBE and yet PPT still thinks there are macros.

Any other suggestions?

Try saving a copy of your presentation in PowerPoint 95 format (look at the options
*carefully* - some include 95 and 97-2003 and you don't want that).

Then reopen it in your current version and save again as a PowerPoint presentation,
normally.


--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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[Guest]

Well, that suggestion worked, but it also reformatted slides...sigh.

 

[Guest]

Well that worked but also reformatted slides...sigh.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Well, that suggestion worked, but it also reformatted slides...sigh.

Yeah, it'll do that sometimes, but you can revert to the original.

What happens if you add one new title slide to a copy of the original, then
delete all the other slides, then save the one-slide jobbie? Still get VB
warnings?

Also, do you have fast saves turned OFF and is reviewing on by any chance?

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

 

[Guest]

I tried this and it did not work. I still received the prompt when I opened
the resaved file.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You're right. Look at the rest of the thread where I said (with my tail
between my legs) that this is not working and where others offered
suggestions that worked.
--David

 

[Guest]

Different thread (I think).

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...oint&mid=b1883f3c-0176-4346-bd61-cc1f2d319161


There is a link to the PPTFAQ in this thread, though. (But apparently
sometimes there's no module to delete or something?)

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

You are right. I just looked on the Web interface and found this was posted
in response to a question back in 2004 (I'm adding "Giving bad advice since
2004" to my signature. Here's a link to the recent thread where this was
discussed:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?
query=macro+advisor+pop-up&dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint&cat=en-us-office-
powerpoint&lang=en&cr=US&pt=b157e6f3-5af9-48cb-a153-895c1aa220f8
&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us

or

http://tinyurl.com/ep8qt

--David

 

[Guest]

LOL! Don't beat yourself up too badly, David. We all have our screwups!

Thanks for posting the link to the more current thread. I received a
notification of activity on this thread (I must have posted to the original
via the web interface), but I didn't know where the current one was.