Word opens when starting new powerpoint document from template

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Simon Rigby

Hi all,

I have added a number of templates to the task pane in Powerpoint 2003
using the registry edit method. That is I have added the follwing
key/value settings to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\New
Presentation\Custom1]
"Action"=dword:00000001
"DisplayName"="SDG Screen Blue"
"Filename"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\Operator\\SDG\\Templates\\sdg
screen06 blue.pot"
"Section"=dword:00000003

This works as expected. The templates appear in the templates section
of the task pane, and when clicked they do fire up a new presentation
based on the template.

However, Word is also starting and as far as I can tell it is asking me
how to interet the file (ie. I get the file conversion dialog asking me
which text encoding to use).

Obviously I don't want Wor dto fire up at all and in fact I have no
idea why is it. There is no VBA code associated with the Powerpoint
template.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards

Simon Rigby
 
Simon,

It works fine here. Don't ya hate that. Like taking a car to a mechanic and
it doesn't squeak when you get there. I woner if there is some sort of
confusion between registered file types?

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Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
www.pptworkbench.com

Australia

glen at pptworkbench dot com

Please tell us your PowerPoint / Windows version,
whether you are using vba, whether
your cows are in the corn paddock, or
anything else relevant.
 
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