You use Microsoft PowerPoint 97 to open a Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2003, or Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 presentation that contains
multiple masters. When you do this, you receive the following error message:
Some controls on this presentation cannot be activated.
They may not be registered on this machine.
You can open the
presentation. However, when you try to start the Visual Basic Editor, you receive
the following error message:
PowerPoint found an error
that it can't correct. You should save presentations, exit, and then restart
PowerPoint.
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This issue can occur if the following conditions are
true:
| • | The presentation was created with PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003 or
PowerPoint 2002. |
| • | The presentation contains multiple slide
masters. |
| • | The second slide master contains a Microsoft ActiveX
component that is named "SlideMasterCustomDesign." |
This issue occurs because PowerPoint 97 does not support the
naming convention that is used by PowerPoint 2007, by PowerPoint 2003, and by PowerPoint 2002 for the ActiveX
component in the second slide master. PowerPoint 97 expects the first Visual
Basic project for the slide master to be named "SlideMaster." However, the
control on the second slide master is named "SlideMasterCustomDesign."
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To work around this issue, open the presentation in
PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003 or PowerPoint 2002.
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A presentation that you create in PowerPoint 2007, in PowerPoint 2003, or
in PowerPoint 2002 may contain features that are not compatible with earlier
versions of PowerPoint.
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