Re: Editing Objects

From: David Sparkman (no_at_spam)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:08:34 -0800

Steve,

Thanks for your very prompt reply. I had a little difficulty following what
you said. There is a selection on the Right Mouse Button menu, Document
Object went you are pointing to the object to be edited. Pointing to that
selection opens another menu with Edit, Open, and Convert. Selecting Edit
opens the object in my application for editing. Esc then closes the edit
mode.

I am able to accomplish what I want, but is there something I can set that
allows the edit mode to open when I point to the object and double-click on
it? This is the way it was in PP2002. Why doesn't work in PP2003?

Regards;
David 

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> In article <c9ydnbY5hKw8RG7cRVn-1w@comcast.com>, David Sparkman wrote:
> > I create chemical structures in a chemical drawing program.  When I copy
and
> > paste one of these into a PP slide, if I'm using PP2002 and I
double-click
> > with the LMB while the Mouse pointer is on the objected, my structure
opens
> > in my chemical drawing program still imbedded in PP.  I make my edit,
press
> > the Esc key and all is fine.
> >
> > In PP2003, under the same conditions, using the same presentation, when
I
> > put the Mouse pointer on the object and double-click the LMB, nothing
> > happens.  Do I have something set wrong?
>
> Do you see options for editing/opening the object on the popup menu when
you
> right-click the object?  If PowerPoint recognizes it as an embedded OLE
object,
> one whose source app is installed on your system, you should see an option
> like:
>
> [YourApp] Object
>
> where [YourApp] is the name of the program that created the object.  Here,
I
> see it just beneath "Save as Picture" (I've got Microsoft's jolly little
> NowYouSeeMeNowYouDon't Peekaboo Menus feature turned off, FWIW.)
>
> Click that and you should get at least Edit and Open options.
>
> If not, something's amiss.  Yeah, well ... you knew that to begin with,
though,
> right? ;-)
>
> Try embedding some other type of object from an OLE app;  try typing a
line or
> two in WordPad, format it in some oddball font and make it fairly large.
Then
> select it and copy and close WordPad.  Paste into PPT.  See if you can
> doubleclick that or rightclick, choose WordPad document object, Open or
Edit.
>
> If that works but content from your equation app doesn't, I'd consider
> uninstalling/reinstalling the equation app.
>
> If the WordPad content won't activate in PPT either, then I'd try a
reinstall
> of PPT.
>
>
>
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