PowerPoint and Internet Explorer

[Jeff]

Hi all,

I have an interesting problem. You know how MS Office
integrates some of itself into Internet Explorer. I have
a problem with PowerPoint viewing one site. Every time I
click on the link (a PowerPointLink), instead of IE
opening it, PowerPoint itself tries, then gets an error
stating it can`t read from the temporary internet files.
If I visit some other sites with PowerPoint pages, it
opens in IE with no problem. Is there something wrong
with PowerPoint or problem with IE? This is working on a
new IBM ThinkPad, running XP SP1, Office 2003 Personal,
PowerPoint 2003(separate install), has the latest updates
for both XP SP1 and Office.

I tried to look at the PowerPoint settings and IE
settings, compared it with another notebook(Dell though)
and are the same. Yet this IBM when going to that
particular link/site, doesn`t open in IE and PowerPoint
doesn`t like trying to open the file from temp internet
files. Thank you.

Jeff

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi Jeff,

As it seems to be a particular link itself, could you please post that link
and we can see if we expereince the same problem? It may be an error in the
file the link is pointing to.

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Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
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[Jeff]

Hi Glen,

No problem, here is the link
http://www.saion.co.jp/release/seminar_0902.ppt
its to a Japanese site. But on other computers, tested it
on 2 W2K and 4 XP SP1 and SP2 machines and they have no
problem. Just that one comp. Like I wrote earlier, I was
able to view other sites with .ppt links with no problem.
Hope you can figure this out. Thanks again.

Jeff

 

[Glen Millar]

Jeff,

Thanks for the link. Yeesh! What is it supposed to be? Anyway, I sometimes
get an error here as well. That is, it sometimes finds it and it sometimes
doesn't. But it always opens in IE. I've got 2003 SP1 here and win 2000 sp4.
Looks to me like it should be in a Word document though, and not PowerPoint
<g>.

Maybe the attached link will give you some things to check.

Control how the browser opens PowerPoint files
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00189.htm


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Glen Millar
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[Jeff]

hi Glen,

Thanks for trying. It is just strange, I can go to other
sites with ppt in it and IE opens it, but when I just go
to that one site, PowerPoint tries to open it and fails.
I just wonder if there is a problem with either IE or
PowerPoint.

Jeff

 

[Glen Millar]

Jeff,

The attached web link explains a number of issues with how either PowerPoint
or Internet Explorer handles files on the web. Worth a read, although I
appreciate your case is a bit different!

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Please tell us your ppt version, and get back to us here
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[Jeff]

Hi Glen,

I am reading up on that site and checking somethings out.
I did notice while remote accessing the problem computer,
that are are multiple double entries in the registry for
the same key, so checking out that side. Funny thing is
the computer is new, the separate install of PowerPoint
2003 was the only addition to the Office 2003 personal.
Will fiddle around with it some more, then might do
drastic things, like uninstalling PowerPoint and
uninstalling IE, the re-install IE and PowerPoint.

Jeff