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Bill Wilkinson
I moved from Windows 98 to XP Home Edition (new machine)
early this year and reinstalled Office 97 Professional onto
the XP box. Everything has been working perfectly for
months until the other day (6 Aug 03) when PowerPoint would
no longer save the complete file name. Instead, it would
save it using only the first letter and the extension.
That is, "test.ppt" would become "t.ppt" after being saved.
In addition, the Files/Properties... dialog displays only
the first letter of the default entries in the Title,
Author, and Company fields.
I update and run Norton weekly and have it configured to
check all incoming files. No known viruses.
I've tried reinstalling Office 97 and SR2. Doesn't help.
Note that the other Office 97 products (Word, Excel,
Binder, etc.) continue to work as specified. Only
PowerPoint appears to be broken.
I've searched the Web and Microsoft's database, but the
nearest clue I could find is that the registry might be
damaged. Not being a registry expert, I'd hate to hack at
it and hope that things automagically fix themselves.
Is it possible that I'd clicked something in PowerPoint
that told it to reconfigure itself to save files only by
the first letter?
I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.
--Bill
early this year and reinstalled Office 97 Professional onto
the XP box. Everything has been working perfectly for
months until the other day (6 Aug 03) when PowerPoint would
no longer save the complete file name. Instead, it would
save it using only the first letter and the extension.
That is, "test.ppt" would become "t.ppt" after being saved.
In addition, the Files/Properties... dialog displays only
the first letter of the default entries in the Title,
Author, and Company fields.
I update and run Norton weekly and have it configured to
check all incoming files. No known viruses.
I've tried reinstalling Office 97 and SR2. Doesn't help.
Note that the other Office 97 products (Word, Excel,
Binder, etc.) continue to work as specified. Only
PowerPoint appears to be broken.
I've searched the Web and Microsoft's database, but the
nearest clue I could find is that the registry might be
damaged. Not being a registry expert, I'd hate to hack at
it and hope that things automagically fix themselves.
Is it possible that I'd clicked something in PowerPoint
that told it to reconfigure itself to save files only by
the first letter?
I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.
--Bill