ActiveX Controls

[Matthew]

When am attempting to load a PC Powerpoint Document in Powerpoint for Mac
2001 I am receiving the message 'Some controls on this presentation cannot
be activated because Powerpoint does not support ActiveX controls'.

Does anyone know how to get round this?

I have no Knowledge of Powerpoint and no real use for it, I just need to
gain access the files in order to copy the graphs from within to other
Software products.

Kind Regards,
Matt

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When am attempting to load a PC Powerpoint Document in Powerpoint for Mac
2001 I am receiving the message 'Some controls on this presentation cannot
be activated because Powerpoint does not support ActiveX controls'.

Does anyone know how to get round this?

I have no Knowledge of Powerpoint and no real use for it, I just need to
gain access the files in order to copy the graphs from within to other
Software products.

Are you still being allowed to open the file and access the graphs?
If so, ignore the message. It may just mean that there are "controls" like
buttons, checkboxes and the like or perhaps Flash movies and such on the slide.

 

[Matthew]

I am being allowed to open the files, but the slides appear blank. I know
the required images are there, as I have had the same .ppt files opened on
the PC's in the office. In the end I resorted to saving all files as tiffs
from the PC's and then emailing them back to myself. This wouldn't be a
problem, except that we've just spent £350 trying to get the Mac's up to
date.

Thanks, Matt.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am being allowed to open the files, but the slides appear blank. I know
the required images are there, as I have had the same .ppt files opened on
the PC's in the office.

It might be that the images on the PC weren't inserted in the normal way
(Insert, Picture, From File) but were copy/pasted from an app that sets up an
OLE server/client relationship by default (or in English: when you doubleclick
it on the PC, does it start up some other app or does it bring up the
formatting dialog box?)

If the former, select the image and ungroup it. That'll leave you with just
the image, no OLE (ActiveX, Whatever_The_Term_Du_Jour_Is) object. That might
just do it for you. I'd be interested to know if it does.