File-name of PowerPoint files appear only with first letter.

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When a powerpoint 2000 file is saved e.g. abcde.ppt; it
appears only with the first letter of the file-name.
e.g.: "a.ppt".

All other office applications are functioning properly.

Done Detect and Repair, no result.

Help!!!!!
 
The second character isn't a "forbidden" character, is it? Like a / or a
\ or anything?

Any chance you have a sticky Shift, CTRL or ALT key?
 
Check the full file path and name. There is an upper limit, however, I do
not recall the exact number.

Try save as filename on the c: drive. If this works (saves full name), then
reduce the number letters in the directories and subdirectories of the path
to storage.

There was also a response posted a little while back that may be of help:

The problem turned out to be that the
compatibility mode had been set to "Windows 98/Windows Me." I found
this out after trying just about everything else possible. Disabling it
fixed the problem.

In case anybody else has this problem, right-click the mouse (assuming
your mouse is set to the default right-hand configuration) on the
PowerPoint shortcut icon (on the desktop, startmenu, or in /Program
Files/Microsoft Office), select Properties and then the Compatibility
tab, and uncheck the "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" checkbox.

That should solve it. I've tried checking and unchecking the box and
the symptoms were consistent in appearing and disappearing.

Note that this works when you have Office 97/PowerPoint 97 installed on
the XP Home Edition. I don't know if it works on other combinations.

I'd taken home from work some PowerPoint XP files a few weeks ago to
troubleshoot a merge problem someone else was having; maybe XP decided
that PowerPoint 97 needed to be in Windows 98 mode and changed it for
me. Or maybe I'd checked it and had forgotten about it.

--Bill
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Hope these help,
B
 
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