ppt 2003 error message re: controls

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When opening company powerpoint presentations, many of our employees receive
the following error message:
"Some controls on this presentation can't be activated. They might not be
registered on this computer."

The presentation template behind all of our company presentations was
apparently originated by someone in Korea. I have stripped one of these
presentations down to a single slide and master slide with no animation or
transitions and no text or text boxes - or anything else for that matter -
but still get the error when trying to open this modified presentation. If
there's a control embedded in this thing, I defy anyone to find it! The only
thing that remains of the original presentation (that's visible) is the
background. Next I'll try changing that.

Meanwhile, Is there any way to find out which control might be causing the
problem? Once I find out, how does one go about registering a control on
their computer?

Thanks for any help you might have on this.
 
In your remaining master, click "Edit > Select All" to
see if there are any transparent images that might be
activated. You might be able to reveal some hidden
objects that way.
 
Hi - thanks for the quick response! I tried your edit/select all suggestion
but the option is grayed out on the menu - must mean there's truly nothing
left in the slide. By the way, I did replace the background with something
from the slide design picklist and this made no difference. Any other
thoughts?
 
The presentation template behind all of our company presentations was
apparently originated by someone in Korea.
Click to expand...

Open Format - Replace Fonts and see whether they have used any Far East
Fonts (or other exotic fonts like "MS Mincho"). Try replacing them by a
standard font like Arial or TimesNewRoman (or whatever is used for English
text in your presentation).

Kind regards,
Ute
 
In addition to selecting everything on the slide (which you've already tried),
be sure to do the same for each of the slide masters and the notes and handouts
masters.

Once you've done that, if it still hasn't fixed things, try this:

On the slide and then on each of the masters, draw a single rectangle.
Then press the tab key repeatedly. It should leave the rectangle selected.
If the rectangle selects then deselects, it means you've got one or more hidden
shapes on the slide or master.

When the rectangle's deselected, press DEL to delete the hidden shape. Repeat
until tabbing ceases to deselect the rectangle.

Is that mysterioso or what? ;-)
 
Not sure if this has been covered

There may be some "left over" elements left in the presentation like flash
objects or wmp objects

Try treating it like a corrupt file and using insert slides from files

lost?
 
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