PowerPoint 4.0 Presentations Not Recognized in Exchange Folder (156001)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q156001

SYMPTOMS

You can drag a PowerPoint 95 presentation from a My Computer or Windows Explorer window to a folder in Microsoft Exchange. That presentation appears as a PowerPoint document when you open the Exchange folder. If you double-click the document, PowerPoint will start and open the presentation.

Similarly, you can drag a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange folder and then double-click it to open the presentation.

However, if you drag a presentation that was saved in PowerPoint 95 as a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation to a Microsoft Exchange folder, you may receive the following message when you double-click it:
A problem occurred while working with, or connecting to, a linked or an embedded object or its source application.

WORKAROUND

If you want to place a PowerPoint 95 presentation saved in PowerPoint 4.0 format in a Microsoft Exchange folder, you can do the following:
  1. In Microsoft Exchange, compose a new message.
  2. Drag the PowerPoint presentation from a Windows Explorer window to your new message.
  3. Save the new message to the desired folder.
If the destination folder is a public folder, other people can now open your message, double-click the PowerPoint presentation object, and view the presentation.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint version 7.0 for Windows 95. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:8/17/2005
Keywords:kbinterop KB156001
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