edit excel charts in powerpoint 2003

[Alan Ball]

Good evening everyone,

On my PC running windows 2000, in the last month, I've recently upgraded from office 2000 to office 2003. I'm in the process of designing a powerpoint presentation, in which I've inserted a number of excel charts. I would like to edit the charts in powerpoint, but every time I double click on the chart an error message appears saying that there is a network error. My excel document is stored on my local machine and no links are made to other excel files stored on a network. I've also downloaded all the office 2003 updates from the microsoft web site, but same problem occurs. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Alan

 

[Alan Ball]

Part of the excel file that I inserted was written with excel 2000, before I did the update.Does that do anything?

All help appreciated,

Alan
Good evening everyone,

On my PC running windows 2000, in the last month, I've recently upgraded from office 2000 to office 2003. I'm in the process of designing a powerpoint presentation, in which I've inserted a number of excel charts. I would like to edit the charts in powerpoint, but every time I double click on the chart an error message appears saying that there is a network error. My excel document is stored on my local machine and no links are made to other excel files stored on a network. I've also downloaded all the office 2003 updates from the microsoft web site, but same problem occurs. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Alan

 

[arne]

have yoy tried to open and save/close your excelfiles and then the PP?
"Alan Ball" <[email protected]> skrev i melding Good evening everyone,

On my PC running windows 2000, in the last month, I've recently upgraded from office 2000 to office 2003. I'm in the process of designing a powerpoint presentation, in which I've inserted a number of excel charts. I would like to edit the charts in powerpoint, but every time I double click on the chart an error message appears saying that there is a network error. My excel document is stored on my local machine and no links are made to other excel files stored on a network. I've also downloaded all the office 2003 updates from the microsoft web site, but same problem occurs. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Alan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Good evening everyone,

On my PC running windows 2000, in the last
month, I've recently upgraded from office 2000 to office 2003. I'm in the
process of designing a powerpoint presentation, in which I've inserted a
number of excel charts. I would like to edit the charts in powerpoint, but
every time I double click on the chart an error message appears saying that
there is a network error.

What's the exact text of the error message?

 

[Alan Ball]

yes
have yoy tried to open and save/close your excelfiles and then the PP?
"Alan Ball" <[email protected]> skrev i melding Good evening everyone,

On my PC running windows 2000, in the last month, I've recently upgraded from office 2000 to office 2003. I'm in the process of designing a powerpoint presentation, in which I've inserted a number of excel charts. I would like to edit the charts in powerpoint, but every time I double click on the chart an error message appears saying that there is a network error. My excel document is stored on my local machine and no links are made to other excel files stored on a network. I've also downloaded all the office 2003 updates from the microsoft web site, but same problem occurs. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Alan

 

[Alan Ball]

The error message is:
"error accessing file, network connection may have been lost"

The same error happens with office XP too!

Thanks in advance everyone,

Have a good day,

Alan

 

[Echo S]

This is not the same error message, but I would try here:
Can't edit Org Chart, Graph, Excel (error msg: "server application, source
file, or item can't be found")
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00236.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The error message is:
"error accessing file, network connection may have been lost"

Is the Excel file in the same folder as the PPT file? If not, try putting it
there and see what happens when you activate the charts.

Next, are you certain that they're all Excel charts, or could some of them be
MSGraph charts instead?

 

[Alan Ball]

Thanks to everyone for your input.

The excel file isn't in the same directory as the powerpoint document. I'm
certain they are all excel documents.

I managed to get around the problem by doing edit, and they I copied the
excel worksheets into a new book, saved the document& this has appeared to
have solved the problem!Any explanations?

Regards,

Alan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks to everyone for your input.

The excel file isn't in the same directory as the powerpoint document. I'm
certain they are all excel documents.

I managed to get around the problem by doing edit, and they I copied the
excel worksheets into a new book, saved the document& this has appeared to
have solved the problem!Any explanations?

Not a clue, I'm afraid

 

[Echo S]

I know you've resolved this, but for future reference, here's some more info
on this error message.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842314
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;840652
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817600