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Camwyn
My office just converted to Office 2007 recently across the board.
We're having issues with some of our larger Powerpoint presentations.
Some of them have ten or more Excel charts, all of which are linked
back to their original files. The problem is that every time we open
one such presentation, it immediately attempts to open the Excel
files, or at least to access them. This causes problems because some
of the files are Excel 2007 format, but saved as .xls files (for
reasons of legacy links in multiple locations). Whenever Powerpoint
gets to such a file the user gets a popup message saying that the
format and the extension don't match, does the user want to take a
chance and continue? The popup usually appears somewhere under or
behind existing windows, and is therefore all but invisible to the
user- who thinks Powerpoint has crashed, as a result.
How do we get Powerpoint 2007 to stop automatically trying to update
these linked charts? All of them are already set to Manual Update. We
just want to present the last known version of the chart, and be able
to update them at will.
Thanks.
We're having issues with some of our larger Powerpoint presentations.
Some of them have ten or more Excel charts, all of which are linked
back to their original files. The problem is that every time we open
one such presentation, it immediately attempts to open the Excel
files, or at least to access them. This causes problems because some
of the files are Excel 2007 format, but saved as .xls files (for
reasons of legacy links in multiple locations). Whenever Powerpoint
gets to such a file the user gets a popup message saying that the
format and the extension don't match, does the user want to take a
chance and continue? The popup usually appears somewhere under or
behind existing windows, and is therefore all but invisible to the
user- who thinks Powerpoint has crashed, as a result.
How do we get Powerpoint 2007 to stop automatically trying to update
these linked charts? All of them are already set to Manual Update. We
just want to present the last known version of the chart, and be able
to update them at will.
Thanks.