Problem with PowerPoint addin

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Jerry

I wrote a small powerpoint addin using vba in office 2002. All it does is
keep track of the amount of time spent on each slide during a presentation
and logs this info to a file. Very simple stuff, and works perfectly on my
computer (office xp on windows xp).

So I pass the .ppa file to a colleague (also office xp/winxp) , who reports
that it doesn't work, and delivers an error message when she starts the
presentation. I move the .ppa to another compuer (win ME with office XP),
and try it myself. I'm able to load the addin ok, and see its 'Initialized'
dialog (my own, done in Initialize_app() ) and sure enough, when I try to
run the presentation I get the error ...

(first error dialog, caption) Project Locked.

Project is Unviewable.

followed by

(2nd error dialog, caption) Microsoft Visual Basic

Compile error. Can't find project or library.

To try to determine what's happening, I stuck a msgbox at the beginning of
the code that executes on app_SlideShowBegin, and it never gets display.
Anyone have a clue as to what's happening here. I have the feeling that
both the error dialogs I'm seeing are the result of some error being
detected which is trying to load/run VBA for debugging. Obviously, the
addin has loaded ... why can't it do anything? Any ideas? Any insight
would be greatly appreciated.

Jerry
 
First Jerry, up the Parkinson's meds... (g)

Have you checked the 'Locked project box' in the VBA section properties?

It also sounds like you have made reference to a 'tool' not available on the
second computer. That would account for the project/library error.

Hope this gets you started.

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