Printing Word97 Tables in PPT02

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ErinM

We're migrating from Office 97 to Office XP (2002-SP2).

Old PPT97 files have embedded Word97 files in them. When
printed from PPT02, each slide that has a Word97 table on
it will pop up a "Word cannot save to the global
template..." error message. Clicking "No" ("No" = no I
don't want to save a new instance of the normal.dot) for
each instance will eventually get the slides printed. An
instance of Winword.exe is opened in the background, and
usually closes on its own.

Yes, our Normal.dot is marked as Read-Only, and it will
stay that way for the forseeable future (changing it to
writeable would mean a huge overhaul of our template
structure).

The question here is -- if we disable the option in PPT02
("Save" tab) "Print embedded objects at printer
resolution" we no longer get the Word message...why is
that? It doesn't appear to be opening a winword.exe
instance in the background either -- why? If we
permanently disable this feature, any ideas what we might
be losing? Any idea if there is a default resolution
chosen by MS if this option is disabled...and what that
resolution might be?

Thanks!
 
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Hello,

| The question here is -- if we disable the option in PPT02
| ("Save" tab) "Print embedded objects at printer
| resolution" we no longer get the Word message...why is
| that? It doesn't appear to be opening a winword.exe
| instance in the background either -- why? If we
| permanently disable this feature, any ideas what we might
| be losing? Any idea if there is a default resolution
| chosen by MS if this option is disabled...and what that
| resolution might be?

The "default" resolution depends on the application which has created the
OLE object but, generally, is at typical screen resolutions (ie 96 dpi).
Basically, by leaving this option disabled you tell PowerPoint to print the
object as is (at whatever resolution the source application provided it's
rendering). If you enable this option, PowerPoint asks the object providing
application to optimize the rendering of the object for whatever the
default printer resolution is. This option allows you to get a "print-time"
optimized rendering of OLE objects without unecessary file size increase
and allows the application that knows best how to render it, to provide the
rendering when needed (for printing).

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions about how
PowerPoint's might otherwise render OLE objects better when printed, don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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