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We are trying to get our Powerpoint Software to retain an unchecked box in Tools...Options....Print Tab. The box is "Print Inserted Objects at Printer Resolution". We would like it to stay unchecked the next time we enter Powerpoint. Why does it always return to checked?
 
We are trying to get our Powerpoint Software to retain an unchecked box in
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Tools...Options....Print Tab. The box is "Print Inserted Objects at Printer Resolution".
We would like it to stay unchecked the next time we enter Powerpoint. Why does it always
return to checked?

Normally it should do what you want.

PowerPoint reads this information from the registry at startup then writes it back out when
you close the application.

Is there anything that might be preventing it from reading/writing to the registry?

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I don't really understand your answer/question. I'm not sure what the registry is. This is in an office environment where the software is running on a network, but each PC has software loaded. How can I best find out how things are loaded to the "registry"?
 
I don't really understand your answer/question. I'm not sure what the registry is.
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This is in an office environment where the software is running on a network, but each PC
has software loaded. How can I best find out how things are loaded to the "registry"?

The registry is a set of files that contains a ton of data that Windows and your
installed programs use to configure themselves.

Do you have an IT person/department that's responsible for setting up PCs and installing
software for everyone? If so, show them my earlier answer and ask them to ensure that
the users running PowerPoint have sufficient permissions to enable PowerPoint to
read/write its own registry entries.



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IT is telling me that this print option is handled differently than other options based on a test they did over the phone. They are going to get back to me. In the meantime, any help finding where the registry option is that is causing this problem?
 
ManagerofColumnB said:
IT is telling me that this print option is handled differently than other options
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based on a test they did over the phone. They are going to get back to me. In the
meantime, any help finding where the registry option is that is causing this
problem?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\PowerPoint\Options

The specific DWORD you're after is:

Send printer information to OLE servers

1 turns the feature on, 0 turns it off.

If there are multiple users, it'd need to be set as desired for each user.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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