"Set profiles first" - persistent error message

[Guest]

Hi

PowerPoint 2003 has just started giving me a persistent error message: "Set
profiles first, please", occasionally interspersed with another: "Server
busy" (this is on a self contained laptop- no server). I can't find any
reference to these error messages in the MS Knowledge Base. Have tried a
Detect and Repair on PowerPoint, but no change. Has anyone come acorss this
issue, and figured out a fix?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

sshall

sounds like you could have the GretagMacbeth color addin running

see
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...profiles+first"&rnum=1&hl=en#1d2ced310b9aeb39

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Guest]

Yes, I sure do. Looks like that's the culprit. Thanks so much- I would never
have thought of that.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Glad to help

TS

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yes, I sure do. Looks like that's the culprit. Thanks so much- I would never
have thought of that.

As mentioned in the google thread Taj linked to, if you choose a profile once, it
shouldn't bother you again. The profile's never used until you convert the
presentation for onscreen use, so this is probably the best solution if you intend to
use the addin from time to time.

You can also locate the PPA file for the addin and rename it to e.g. .PPB extension
to disable it (this while PPT is NOT running, please!)

There should be no need to uninstall it totally.

Unless you don't use it, in which case there's no much point to having it installed
;-)