Excel and powerpoint problems

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Stephanie

Has anyone ever seen the error that pops up when you try
to open an excel spreadsheet after pasting it into PPT
2000? Excel is version 9.0.4402 and powerpoint is
9.0.4527. Office 2000 has SR-1 and SP3 installed. I can
recreate the problem everytime, on a number of machines.
Only one hasnt done it, but they are all the same version.
Actual error is:

"powerpoint cannont start the application required to open
this object. An error occured and this feature is no
longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair?"
(hit yes)

"The server application, source fil, or item cannot be
found, or returned an unknown error. You may need to
reinstall the server application."

when you bring excel back up it tries to repair itself and
asks for the datapro1.msi. We have it on netork drives,
locally on the hard drive and on a CD, and it wont repair
whatever is causing the problem. To get excel to work you
have to use the .exe file from the office2000 folder. If
you reinstall office 2k, it wont error until you try to
open an excel spreadsheet inside powerpoint again.
 
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