OFFXP: Documents Containing Shockwave Flash objects quit unexpectedly when opening and closing them programmatically

When you programmatically open and close Microsoft Office documents that contain Shockwave Flash objects, the Microsoft Office program may quit unexpectedly (crash).

When you programmatically open and close Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that contain Shockwave Flash objects, PowerPoint may quit and you may sometimes receive the following error message:

Service Pack Information

This problem is corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix Information

How to Obtain the Hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Office XP Post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package July 1, 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.