How to find a reference to a "picture in an untrusted location"

[Dave Jenkins]

Using PowerPoint 2007 SP1, Windows XP3, processing a .ppt file.

When I go into slideshow mode, I get a Security Alert popup that says
"Warning: This document references pictures in untrusted locations." and it
offers to block the references. (Go here: http://screencast.com/t/KSJVXZjrF
to see a screenshot of the actual popup.)

How can I find the reference or references that are causing the warning to
appear? I have tried binary halving the file in an attempt to isolate a
slide that prompts the warning, but that technique won't work - I got down to
the last slide and removed all content on it and *still* got the popup.

Thanks.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi Dave,

Possibilities are:

You have linked the image directly off the internet. Try Cut| Paste Special|
PNG.
There is a hyperlink attached to the image. Select the image and go <Control
+ K> to see it or remove it.
There is some sort of Active X or other code pulled off the internet as
well. Try Cut| Paste Special| PNG.

Please, let us know how to you get on.

--
Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Hi Steve:

Nope - no image in the Slide Master. AT any rate, I just want to find
what's triggering the popup. I could write a little code to find the
offedning pictures, if I just knew what to look for.

I already have a routine that looks for linked OLE objects - there are
none.

I *do* see that many of the pictures in the slides are *embedded* objects -
could that cause the popup? I must confess ignorance to the subtleties of
linked vs. embedded, but once an object is embedded, it's part of the deck,
is it not, and hence there is no longer any need to be warned, is there? Or
is there?

Maybe I neeed to find the embedded images, delete them, and then see if the
popup comes back?

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Hi Glenn:

Thanks for the advice. However, my problem is I don't know what images are
cuasing the popup to occur. This deck is *loaded* with pictures, graphic
images, etc. What I really want to know is how to find the popup-triggering
objects.

I don't mind writing some code to do so, but I'm at a loss as to what to
look for. I can eliminate hyperlinks as a source, since I already have code
that identifies such links.

Any further advice?

--
Dave Jenkins
K5KX

Hi Dave,

Possibilities are:

You have linked the image directly off the internet. Try Cut| Paste Special|
PNG.
There is a hyperlink attached to the image. Select the image and go <Control
+ K> to see it or remove it.
There is some sort of Active X or other code pulled off the internet as
well. Try Cut| Paste Special| PNG.

Please, let us know how to you get on.

--
Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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[Dave Jenkins]

First, the abject confession:

I *was* able to find the object - I guess my binary search of the files was
flawed.

Next, the object that prompted the popup *was* an embedded picture - shape
type 10 (msoLinkedPicture).

But as a final note, I think it's unconscionable that MS would put up an
alert popup such as that without identifying the cuasative slide(s), shape(s)
and their links. JMHO.

Thanks for all the helpful input - you guys rock!

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Yours. Mine. Ours.

Tie the idiot that wrote this error message to the "File not found" author, add
weights, marinate well in about 2 fathoms of ocean ... the world could be a
better place. Stop them before they code again.

Try not to hold back so much, Steve ...

Dave