Removing the dregs of PowerPlugs Transitions

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Walter Donavan

Win 2K Pro (SP4 + patches) and PPT02 (Office XP SP2), both up to date.

After uninstalling the free PowerPlugs 3D Transitions from Geetesh's PPT
ezine, I had the following problems.

I. Only one of the two programs was removed from the Add/Remove Programs
Applet window. It took extensive registry slash-and-burn to get rid of the
other
one. The installer does not clean up after itself.

II. In PPT02 the (1) Transitions Toolbar remained, as did the Slide Show
menu items: (2) "View Show with 3D" and (3) "Add 3D Transition". I couldn't
swat them. Does anybody know how to get rid of them?

Thanks in advance.
 
After uninstalling the free PowerPlugs 3D Transitions from Geetesh's PPT
ezine, I had the following problems.

I. Only one of the two programs was removed from the Add/Remove Programs
Applet window. It took extensive registry slash-and-burn to get rid of the
other
one. The installer does not clean up after itself.
Click to expand...

You'd need to contact the developer about that. They're the ones who created
the installer/uninstaller and would best know what it does.
II. In PPT02 the (1) Transitions Toolbar remained, as did the Slide Show
menu items: (2) "View Show with 3D" and (3) "Add 3D Transition". I couldn't
swat them. Does anybody know how to get rid of them?
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The only way to remove toolbars and menu items from PPT is by using PPT itself,
so external uninstallers frequently leave bits like this behind.

To get rid of toolbars:

Choose View, Toolbars, Customize. Click the Toolbars tab of the Customize
dialog box. Click the toolbar you want to delete then click Remove.

Leave the Customize dialog box open for now.

To get rid of menu items:

With the Customize dialog box open (doesn't work otherwise) hold down the ALT
key while you click the menu item you want to open (Slide Show in this case).
When you can see the menu item you want to remove, with the ALT key still held
down, drag the item OFF the menu or dropdown menu.

That's it. Close the Customize dialog box and you're done.
 
Steve,

Many thanks! I tried your method, which I am sure works, but lost my Slide
Show menu due to pilot error and couldn't get it back.

I got everything working again, though. If I had stopped to think it
through, there were two other ways of putting things back the way they were:

1. Office Detect and Repair, using the restore default settings checkbox.

2. Restoring the Office settings using the Save My Settings wizard. Since I
save my settings every day or two, and have been for years, I chose this
method and it worked fine.

All is copasetic.

Thanks again.
 
Many thanks! I tried your method, which I am sure works, but lost my Slide
Show menu due to pilot error and couldn't get it back.
Click to expand...

In the event of Menu disasters, choose View, Toolbars, Customize then click
Reset.

Lots faster and does less collateral damage to your settings than the other
tricks. ;-)
 
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