PPT crashing when working with Excel OLE

[Hari Prasadh]

Hi,

One of my friends has Win XP SP2, Office 2003 SP1 and she reported an issue
regarding inserting/editing Excel OLE objects in PPT.

She does insert-> object -> Microsoft chart-object but then the PPT
application displays an error message "Microsoft office PPT cant start the
application required to open this object. An error occurred and this feature
is no longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature
now?"

Detect and repair doesnt help.

Same error message problems (application crashes down) occur if an attempt
to edit Excel OLE objects is done.

Please guide me.

Thanks a lot,
Hari
India

 

[Hari Prasadh]

Hi,

I enquired my friend and came to know that if
a) Insert-> Object -> Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation within EXCEL
application then it works fine.
b) Insert-> Object -> Microsoft Excel Chart within WinWord application gets
a message "waiting for another application to complete an OLE action."
c) Insert-> Object -> EXCEL Chart within Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
application. still didn't work.

My friend has tried the above by reinstalling office components through Add-
remove programs - Change and install all components on the local computer.

Please guide me as to what the problem could be.

Thanks a lot,
Hari
India