ppt file is write protected

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Hi,

i scan through several ppt-files and make some modifications store them
finally. This is done by a VBA program. On few files I get the following
message (translation from german): "When you want to send this presentation
back to the original author, you should mark changes as revisions......"

How can I prevent this message or thta the program stops and the user has to
intervent.
 
Hi,

i scan through several ppt-files and make some modifications store them
finally. This is done by a VBA program. On few files I get the following
message (translation from german): "When you want to send this presentation
back to the original author, you should mark changes as revisions......"

How can I prevent this message or thta the program stops and the user has to
intervent.
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I'm not sure but I suspect this is because the document has been sent for
review (intentionally or not)

The presentation object's HasRevisionInfo property (and the help file for same)
may be useful.
 
Hi,

I looked at this, it gives "ppRevisionInfoNone" back; any further Idea to
look?
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I don't have any immediate suggestions but if you can make a very small version
of the file, one without any sensitive information, I'd like to have a look at
it. (Of course, with revision tracking on, it may be hard to shrink the file
and harder to know what's included in it).

Let's follow up by email at steve at-sign pptools dot com

I'll report any results here.
 
It was sent exactly on this E-Mail at 4/4/07 21:22 German time: I will send
again right now.
 
It was sent exactly on this E-Mail at 4/4/07 21:22 German time: I will send
again right now.
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Ah, got it. Thanks.

I didn't see the explanation of your name vs the sender's name at the bottom of
the email.
 
It was sent exactly on this E-Mail at 4/4/07 21:22 German time: I will send
again right now.
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Now that I have the file, I'm fairly sure it has no revision info embedded (and
the Revision toolbar doesn't appear when I open it in PPT 2000; the revision
task pane doesn't appear when I open it in 2003.

Do you have some example code that will cause the message you've reported?
I've done a few simple things like open/change a doc property/save and gotten
no messages from PowerPoint.

Also, which PPT version do you use?

Thanks!
 
Steve,

Sorry for the delay I was collecting information. My project is written in
Delphi 7. So it is not so easy to translate to pure vba code. But what I do
is to add some information to the tag of the presentation and all slides, it
is a GUID in order to mark each slide with a unique identifier.
code like:
activeslide.tags.add(Identifier,GUID)

After this I call application.activepresentation.save.
This statement creates the error message or warning I mentioned in the first
post.

I also observed that after several trial with that file the message
vanishes. I don't know why.
 
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