Setting Profiles

[Guest]

Whenever I open a file or try to start a new PowerPoint presentation I get a
message saying "Set profiles first, please" and then have to click "OK". I
have looked in the PowerPoint Help and in the Knowledgebase and can find no
mention of setting profiles. Any hints on how I can get rid of this message?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Whenever I open a file or try to start a new PowerPoint presentation I get a
message saying "Set profiles first, please" and then have to click "OK". I
have looked in the PowerPoint Help and in the Knowledgebase and can find no
mention of setting profiles. Any hints on how I can get rid of this message?

It sounds as though you have an add-in of some sort that wants ... er...
something it calls profiles.

See if anything's listed in Tools, Addins.

 

[Guest]

Steve, Thanks for the idea but nothing in Add-ins. I'm wondering could there
be some macro that executes whenever you open a file? Where would I look for
automatic macros?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, Thanks for the idea but nothing in Add-ins. I'm wondering could there
be some macro that executes whenever you open a file? Where would I look for
automatic macros?

Unlike Word and Excel, PowerPoint has no way to fire off code in a PPT file
automatically. I don't think that's the problem.

Here's some code you can run to list the installed add-ins, including those that
don't show up in Tools, Addins:

What add-ins are loaded?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00655.htm

 

[Rudy]

Steve, Thanks for the idea but nothing in Add-ins. I'm wondering could there
be some macro that executes whenever you open a file? Where would I look for
automatic macros?

Unlike Word and Excel, PowerPoint has no way to fire off code in a PPT file
automatically. I don't think that's the problem.

Here's some code you can run to list the installed add-ins, including those that
don't show up in Tools, Addins:

What add-ins are loaded?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00655.htm

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
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I have the same problem... with nothing listed in addins. However, I
think the reference is to screen color profiles. In my case I suspect
that Gregtag Macbeth Eye-One is the culprit. If you have not yet
solved your problem perhaps you can let me know if you are using a
similar screen calibrator. Have you searched your hard drive for a
..ppa file? That would be a Powerpoint addin.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Whenever I open a file or try to start a new PowerPoint

presentation I get a
this message?

I have the same problem... with nothing listed in addins. However, I
think the reference is to screen color profiles. In my case I suspect
that Gregtag Macbeth Eye-One is the culprit. If you have not yet
solved your problem perhaps you can let me know if you are using a
similar screen calibrator. Have you searched your hard drive for a
..ppa file? That would be a Powerpoint addin.

Good call.

If you run the code in the link I supplied, it'll list the Eye-One addin,
unless it's been substially rewritten in the last year or so.

As I recall, it shouldn't ask you to choose a profile if you simply start PPT
by clicking the PPT icon, but under some circumstances it might if you start
PPT by doubleclicking a PPT file.

 

[RudyK2evy]

Thanks for the encouragement.

As best I see could clicking vs. double clicking give same result.

I located the .ppa in the GregtagMacbeth directory (i1ColorPoint.ppa in my
case). Renaming disables it and the offending window no longer appears.

I now see that the .ppa was finding and evidently applying the color profile
which I have established for my screen within PowerPoint. I don't see the
point of this because the profile is applied whenever my computer boots up.
However, the cause for the "Set Profiles" window is that the .ppa was also
demanding to be given a profile for the projector intended to be used in
conjunction with PowerPoint. I've dropped GregtagMacbeth an e-mail
requesting an acceptable entry for teaching the .ppa that no projector
profile is available.

Rudy

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the encouragement.

As best I see could clicking vs. double clicking give same result.

I located the .ppa in the GregtagMacbeth directory (i1ColorPoint.ppa in my
case). Renaming disables it and the offending window no longer appears.

That nails it down properly then. Good.

I now see that the .ppa was finding and evidently applying the color profile
which I have established for my screen within PowerPoint. I don't see the
point of this because the profile is applied whenever my computer boots up.

On a system level, yes. But PowerPoint happily ignores that altogether. It
does no color management itself and pays no attention to system-level CM.
That's why the addin is necessary in the first place.

However, the cause for the "Set Profiles" window is that the .ppa was also
demanding to be given a profile for the projector intended to be used in
conjunction with PowerPoint. I've dropped GregtagMacbeth an e-mail
requesting an acceptable entry for teaching the .ppa that no projector
profile is available.

The addin exists only so that you can use projector profiles created with the
accompanying hardware/software. If I recall correctly, you should only have to
choose a profile once and it'll remember that. Choosing any projector profile
will do no harm; it only comes into play when you have the addin convert the
presentation to color-corrected mode.

If you don't have a profile, then there's no point to using the addin; you may
as well leave it disabled.

 

[RudyK2evy]

I received an e-mail response from GretagMacbeth. A one-line response
recommending deleting the program in Add/Remove. There goes the baby with
the bathwater.

I called on the phone (a little warm under the collar) and was surprised
that the Techie knew enough to confirm that Powerpoint "does no color
management." I asked him if it would not be a good idea to give the user an
option to opt out of supplying a projector profile. He said that they were
talking about that "just today." Hmmm.

Bottom line. Disabling the .ppa or deleting it is the way to go.

Thanks again for your comments.

Rudy

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the followup, Rudy.