Word opens when starting new powerpoint document from template

[Simon Rigby]

Hi all,

I have added a number of templates to the task pane in Powerpoint 2003
using the registry edit method. That is I have added the follwing
key/value settings to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\New
Presentation\Custom1]
"Action"=dword:00000001
"DisplayName"="SDG Screen Blue"
"Filename"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Operator\\SDG\\Templates\\sdg
screen06 blue.pot"
"Section"=dword:00000003

This works as expected. The templates appear in the templates section
of the task pane, and when clicked they do fire up a new presentation
based on the template.

However, Word is also starting and as far as I can tell it is asking me
how to interet the file (ie. I get the file conversion dialog asking me
which text encoding to use).

Obviously I don't want Wor dto fire up at all and in fact I have no
idea why is it. There is no VBA code associated with the Powerpoint
template.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards

Simon Rigby

 

[Glen Millar]

Simon,

It works fine here. Don't ya hate that. Like taking a car to a mechanic and
it doesn't squeak when you get there. I woner if there is some sort of
confusion between registered file types?

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.pptworkbench.com

Australia

glen at pptworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.

 

[Simon Rigby]

Thanks Glenn. Definitely worth a look. Ta digger