Re: How can I find "binary tags" in a .PPT file using PPT 2007?

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And now that Steve has located the names

Sub zappem()
With ActivePresentation.Tags
..Delete ("___PPTMAC11")
..Delete ("___PPT2001")
..Delete ("___PPT12")
End With
End Sub

The other three tags should be there either so you might want to zap them
too! Strangely in PPT2007 code my count was 5 (not 6) and like Steve in 2003
it was 6
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"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article <0F528807-9361-4AF4-A1CA-31D65726A978@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Jenkins
wrote:
Take a look at this test file: http://www.mediafire.com/?ezcj9a9abnh

Worth a thousand words. <g>

If you open that and look at the PRESENTATION's .Tags.Count, you'll get 6.

If you write a little code to delete them all, you'll delete YOUR tags but 3
will still be left.

Open the untouched pres in 2003 and look at the pres.xml file in the Script
Editor and you'll see this

<p:tag name="___PPT2001" type="binary" datasize="68" dataoffset="6"/>
<p:tag name="___PPTMAC11" type="binary" datasize="1562" dataoffset="7"/>
<p:tag name="ALREADYOPENEDONCE" type="string" value="-1"/>
<p:tag name="PREVIOUS_ACTIVE_SLIDE" type="string" value="567"/>
<p:tag name="RESTARTSLIDENUMBER" type="string" value="1"/>
<p:tag name="___PPT12" type="binary" datasize="9" dataoffset="8"/>

Delete the ones listed as binary, let it update when you close the script
editor, save as PPT. NOW when you open in 2007 and save as PPTX, you get no
backchat.

So the questions are:

- Where did the mystery tags come from? (something to do with Mac, apparently)

- And how do we squeeze 'em out of the file?

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