Templates not showing up in Project Gallery or Formatting Palette

[usn.mustanger]

I'm not sure when this happened, as I haven't actually created a PPT
recently, but today, I noticed that while there are 111 ppt templates
in my Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/Presentations/Design folder, only
two show up in Project Gallery (two that I d/l'ed from MS Template
Gallery), and NONE of them show up in my Formatting Palette. Browsing
to that folder in the Finder, I noticed that none of the templates
(except the 2 I downloaded) had extensions, and Get Info revealed that
they were set to open with Quicktime Viewer. Using a script, I
appended the .pot extension to all of them, and set PowerPoint to open
pot files. The icon is still a plain white page (no PowerPoint icon),
and although double clicking them results in them being opened
PowerPoint, they still aren't showing up in the Project Gallery or
Formatting Palette. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks!

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I'm not sure when this happened, as I haven't actually created a PPT
recently, but today, I noticed that while there are 111 ppt templates
in my Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/Presentations/Design folder, only
two show up in Project Gallery (two that I d/l'ed from MS Template
Gallery), and NONE of them show up in my Formatting Palette. Browsing
to that folder in the Finder, I noticed that none of the templates
(except the 2 I downloaded) had extensions, and Get Info revealed that
they were set to open with Quicktime Viewer. Using a script, I
appended the .pot extension to all of them, and set PowerPoint to open
pot files. The icon is still a plain white page (no PowerPoint icon),

That seems to be a new kink in Tiger. If you set the creator type to "PPT3"
and the file type to "PPOT" in the Finder (by script), you'll get the icon.

and although double clicking them results in them being opened
PowerPoint, they still aren't showing up in the Project Gallery or
Formatting Palette. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks!

Well, I don't know if that will help, but give it a try. When I set the file
type to missing value, the icon is blank, but it still appears in the
project Gallery and Palette. So setting it to "PPOT" may or may not help.

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Paul Berkowitz
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