PowerPoint 2003

[Guest]

Since updating to PowerPoint 2003, whenever I try to open an Excel Chart embedded in a slide by double clicking on the chart, I receive pop-up boxes indicating that Microsoft is trying to start Microsoft Project. I must delete 6 different pop-ups before I can access the Excel chart. This occurs on every slide within a presentation.

I have downloaded the most recent Office updates but to no avail.

 

[Sonia]

It could be your file associations. Open Windows Explorer and go to Tools >
Folder Options > Files Types. Locate and select XLS in the list. Is it
associated with Access? If so, change it to Excel and see if that corrects
the problem.
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Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
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Since updating to PowerPoint 2003, whenever I try to open an Excel Chart

embedded in a slide by double clicking on the chart, I receive pop-up boxes
indicating that Microsoft is trying to start Microsoft Project. I must
delete 6 different pop-ups before I can access the Excel chart. This occurs
on every slide within a presentation.

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Interesting... there was another post regarding a very similar issue
recently... called "Help editing MS objects," posted on Apr 15 2004 by

Somehow, MS Project has become associated with all Word or
Excel objects inserted into PPT. Each time I try to edit an
Excel or Word object in PPS, the system starts opening MS
Project. It takes 6-10 mouse clicks on Cancel to finally
interrupte this process. Once interuppted, editing proceeds
as expected. How can I disable this without having to
uninstall Project?

This is starting to sound like a bug... Any comments?

- JC

Since updating to PowerPoint 2003, whenever I try to open an Excel Chart

embedded in a slide by double clicking on the chart, I receive pop-up boxes
indicating that Microsoft is trying to start Microsoft Project. I must
delete 6 different pop-ups before I can access the Excel chart. This occurs
on every slide within a presentation.