Blank.POTX and Default Theme.thmx conflict

[rroncme]

I've trying to limit my 4300 users to saving Presentations in the 97-2003
format. I've set the default type, but the Save As menu choices from the
office button offer the default 2007 type as the top choice in the lest, and
still allows them to override this.

Soooo.

I created a blank.potx that uses XML from the Office 2007 Custom UI editor
to restrict the save as menu options as follows:

Start CODE******
<customUI xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/01/customui">
<ribbon>
<officeMenu>
<splitButton idMso="FileSaveAsMenu">
<menu>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsPowerPoint97_2003" enabled="true"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsPowerPointPptx" enabled="false"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsPowerPointPpsx" enabled="false"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsPowerPointPptxMacro" enabled="false"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsMenu" enabled="false"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsPdfOrXps" enabled="false"/>
<button idMso="FileSaveAsOtherFormats" enabled="false"/>
</menu>
</splitButton>
</officeMenu>
</ribbon>
</customUI>
END CODE******

It would work if I clicked the template manually, but not by simply opening
powerpoint. I found a file called Default Theme.thmx, and when I deleted it,
the menu code started working.

This works great until a user right clicks a theme and says set as default,
which recreates the Default Theme.thmx file and stops my xml code in the
blank.potx from working again.

Any ideas?

 

[rroncme]

Thanks Steve,

I had already created an add-in, but couldn't figure out how to distribute
it to 4300 machines.

Can this just be dropped in a directory and powerpoint will pick it up?

If so, what directory would that go in?

RDR