Linking an Adobe Illustrator CS2 file

[jdwinx]

I am using the linking object functionality of powerpoint and it works great
for Adobe Illustrator 10 files. However, when I try and link in an Adobe
Illustrator CS2 file, it does not work correctly and gives the message:
Source application or file not found. It gave me this message even though it
did find Illustrator CS2 because it would show it starting up in the
background and then that message would pop up.
I tried it on two different machines and had a co-worker try it on his
machine, all with the same result. The same error comes up whether we use
PowerPoint XP, 2003, or even 2007.

Ideas???

Thanks,
jdwinx

 

[jdwinx]

The steps used to link the file in PowerPoint 2007 were:

1. Select Insert Object from Ribbon toolbar
2. Click radio box "Create from file"
3. Clicked browse and found Illustrator file to insert. One example of a
filename used was "address_spaces.ai"
4. Clicked the radio box titled "Link" to indicate it should be linked into
the presentation instead of just copied.
5. Clicked OK

The file extension of the files I am trying to link is .ai for both the
Illustrator 10 files and the Illustrator CS2 files.

Thanks,
jdwinx