some controls on this presentation cant be activated?

[Guest]

hello

My friend recently got an animated email ( helicopter game ) run in
powerpoint, the problem is when he tries to run it he get this message:
"some controls on this presentation cant be activated.they might not be
registered on this computer."
He has windows xp ..office 2003.
any help will be greatly appreciated.

regards

 

[Guest]

A wild guess since I cant see your PC (no really I cant!) - maybe the game is
in flash and you dont have Adobe flash player on your PC?
--
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Did that answer the question / help?
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[Steve Rindsberg]

My friend recently got an animated email ( helicopter game ) run in

powerpoint, the problem is when he tries to run it he get this message:
"some controls on this presentation cant be activated.they might not be
registered on this computer."
He has windows xp ..office 2003.
any help will be greatly appreciated.

This should explain what's going on:

"Could not load an object" or "some controls on this presentation cant be
activated" messages
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00749.htm

 

[Guest]

Hi
thankyou for your reply. how do i edit/ remove the control ? is it possible
? too hard ?sorry im not real savvy on PP.
Again, thankyou foryour reply ,much Apprectiated.
Regards

 

[Guest]

Hi

He has Adobe flash player 9 on his Computer already .thnakyou for your reply
,much appreciated.
regards

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi
thankyou for your reply. how do i edit/ remove the control ? is it possible
? too hard ?sorry im not real savvy on PP.
Again, thankyou foryour reply ,much Apprectiated.

If you can work out which shape is the control, all you need to do is select it
and delete it.

One way to do that is:

Open the presentation
Press Alt+F11 to open the Visual Basic editor
On the left, you'll see a list of open presentations named things like:

VBAProject (presentation name)

Find the current presentation name and click the + sign to open it.
There should be a folder underneath marked "Microsoft PowerPoint Objects"
Open that and underneath you'll see e.g. Slide2 or the like for every slide
with a control on it.

Rightclick the slide icon and choose View Object to go to the slide in
question.

Look for things that don't quite look like the usual PPT objects.

If you download the free PPTools Starter Set (http://starterset.pptools.com) it
includes a tool that you can click to tell you the type of the selected object.
If it's a Type 12/OLE Control Object, that's your target. Delete it and save
the presentation under a new name.

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve
thankyou very much for that .. you know your stuff .
thankyou for your time and expertise.
regards

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Steve
thankyou very much for that .. you know your stuff .
thankyou for your time and expertise.
regards

And thank you ... one I wrote the answer I realized it needed to be part of the
FAQ, so I've added it now.