J
John Ratzlaff
Hi! I have a user who wants all the templates from Office2000
(specifically PowerPoint) to be usable in OfficeXP. A reasonable
request. I found those templates (*.pot files) on the Office2000 install
disk and copied them to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation Designs. Now in PowerPointXP, in the New
Presentation sidebar, I click General Templates... and I see a list of
many templates including all the ones I just copied over from 2000. I
click on some of them and it shows the preview and allows me to open it
properly. But on others (for example Azure) it doesn't show a preview,
instead saying "Click OK to install additional templates and create a
new file." So I click OK. It says "Installing Components for Microsoft
PowerPoint" and shows a progress bar going across, but then stops,
saying "Installer Information. Error 1322. A portion of the folder path
" exceeds the length allowed by the system." (Note the single
double-quote in the middle of the message.) After I click OK, it says
"Microsoft PowerPoint can't display the template used in this document.
The feature is not available." Then I click OK once more, and another
message says "The path or file name for c:\azure.pot is invalid. Please
check that the path and file name are correct." The azure.pot file CAN
be opened however, if I click "Open" and then navigate to the above
folder. So it appears simply to be an installation issue; PowerPoint
knows the file is there, and where it is, but it can't display a preview
or open it thru the General Templates dialog.
I have run into the Error 1322 problem previously, several years ago;
don't remember the solution but thought it concerned Office2000 so I
don't see why it is coming up with OfficeXP.
A bit more experimentation with another computer has led to the
following observations: Simply copying those Office2000 template files
(such as Azure.pot) to the OfficeXP installation does NOT cause them to
show up in the General Templates list. So the fact that they WERE
showing up suggests that perhaps it is because this particular
installation of OfficeXP was done over top of Office2000. So it appears
to me that I could just go into the registry and delete the template
entries for those templates that OfficeXP doesn't seem able to handle,
and they would no longer show up. The only remaining question at this
point is, Can I somehow get OfficeXP to "handle" those Office2000
templates properly--i.e., view them as legitimate templates, with
preview etc.? Thanks for any help! - JR
(specifically PowerPoint) to be usable in OfficeXP. A reasonable
request. I found those templates (*.pot files) on the Office2000 install
disk and copied them to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Templates\Presentation Designs. Now in PowerPointXP, in the New
Presentation sidebar, I click General Templates... and I see a list of
many templates including all the ones I just copied over from 2000. I
click on some of them and it shows the preview and allows me to open it
properly. But on others (for example Azure) it doesn't show a preview,
instead saying "Click OK to install additional templates and create a
new file." So I click OK. It says "Installing Components for Microsoft
PowerPoint" and shows a progress bar going across, but then stops,
saying "Installer Information. Error 1322. A portion of the folder path
" exceeds the length allowed by the system." (Note the single
double-quote in the middle of the message.) After I click OK, it says
"Microsoft PowerPoint can't display the template used in this document.
The feature is not available." Then I click OK once more, and another
message says "The path or file name for c:\azure.pot is invalid. Please
check that the path and file name are correct." The azure.pot file CAN
be opened however, if I click "Open" and then navigate to the above
folder. So it appears simply to be an installation issue; PowerPoint
knows the file is there, and where it is, but it can't display a preview
or open it thru the General Templates dialog.
I have run into the Error 1322 problem previously, several years ago;
don't remember the solution but thought it concerned Office2000 so I
don't see why it is coming up with OfficeXP.
A bit more experimentation with another computer has led to the
following observations: Simply copying those Office2000 template files
(such as Azure.pot) to the OfficeXP installation does NOT cause them to
show up in the General Templates list. So the fact that they WERE
showing up suggests that perhaps it is because this particular
installation of OfficeXP was done over top of Office2000. So it appears
to me that I could just go into the registry and delete the template
entries for those templates that OfficeXP doesn't seem able to handle,
and they would no longer show up. The only remaining question at this
point is, Can I somehow get OfficeXP to "handle" those Office2000
templates properly--i.e., view them as legitimate templates, with
preview etc.? Thanks for any help! - JR