security alert

[cayce]

I have a single slide with only one item in it. It contains the logo of a
potential customer captured from their website. When opening the Power Point
in 2007, a security warning states:

“References to external pictures have been blocked. If you choose to enable
the content, you may be loading content from remote locations, which presents
a security risk.â€

Then farther down it states:
“Warning: This document references pictures in untrusted locations. These
references have been blocked.â€

Does anyone know what might be going on with this graphic to generate this
security alert?

Thank you.

 

[Echo S]

Cut the picture (Ctrl+X) on the slide, then Paste Special (on the Home Tab)
and choose PNG.

Not sure, but I think this will weed out the HTML tag that references the
webpage you copied the graphic from.

You shouldn't paste web graphics directly into PPT for this reason.

I suspect this is related:

PowerPoint connects to the internet unexpectedly
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00613.htm

 

[Ute Simon]

I have a single slide with only one item in it. It contains the logo of a

potential customer captured from their website. When opening the Power
Point
in 2007, a security warning states:

"References to external pictures have been blocked. If you choose to
enable
the content, you may be loading content from remote locations, which
presents
a security risk."

Then farther down it states:
"Warning: This document references pictures in untrusted locations. These
references have been blocked."

Does anyone know what might be going on with this graphic to generate this
security alert?

How did you "capture" the logo? Please do not insert images with Copy &
Paste. Right-click on the image on the website, choose "Save image" and save
it to your harddrive. In PowerPoint use Insert - Image and navigate to the
place on your harddrive where it is saved. Insert it from there.

If you copy an image from a website with Ctrl+C, the chance is very high,
that you involuntarily copy a bit of HTML code which causes that warning
message.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[cayce]

Thanks to both responders. I don't copy paste. My coworker is the author and
I checked with him; he did just copy/paste from the website. I now have a 4th
reason to tell the folks I support NOT to use copy/paste. Can I assume that
harmful stuff might be lingering in this type of HTML code? While unlikely
from a legitimate .com website, this is a bad habit I have been trying to
persuade against.

Thanks for the ammunition.

Namaste.