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    - Office templates as background web page for home business,legal? Starting sole trader home business, used microsoft PowerPoint template as background for web page advertisment, am I breaking copyright? Can I use template on business cards & further advertisments like side of a van? Tom Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397187
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    - Protect presentation Is there any way that I stop, or make it difficult, for somebody to edit/remove a slide from a presentation. I have inserted a "No copying or public display allowed" slide into a presentation that I am giving to a group. - this is what I want to try and make permanent. TIA Chris Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397181
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    - Powerpoint Wordcount Can Powerpoint give you a word count? If so how? Thanks. Seamus Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397178
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    - Copied Item, Paste in document as a page size Copied Item, Paste in document as a page size or inserted text frame size... pls tell us how i can do it. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397176
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    - How can I play multiple movies in parallel in powerpoint? How can I play multiple movies in parallel in powerpoint? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397164
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    - PowerPoint Viewer 2007 won't display equations I have some PowerPoint files which include equations created with the Microsoft Equation Editor. They look fine in PowerPoint. But when I try to view them with PowerPoint Viewer 2007, they're displayed as a frame with a little red X in the upper left corner. I have verified that the MS Equation Editor is installed on this computer. (I've checked this by looking in Word 2003 and selecting by Insert/Object, and Microsoft Equation is visible as an option.) Any suggestions? Thanks. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397163
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    - Problems using powerpoint 2002 files in PPT 2007 We made a PowerPoint presentation in 2002 and when i open it in 2007 i can edit it fine and do whatever, when i go to play the slideshow it will not advance on click or timer, and i cannot right click to get the menu, i have to press "esc" to go back. Any suggestions? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397157
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    - MPEGs won't play in PowerPoint 2003 My CEO has a PowerPoint presentation with several MPEG-1 clips that he has used many times before. He does have a new XP computer with the same version of Office as before (2003). The MPEG clips do not play. We up run updated codec packs, verfiied latest updates, etc. However, even before checking all those, we found the the MPEG files would play in Windows Media Player on his computer, just not in PowerPoint. As our compnay has its own video department, our team recompressed one of the MPEGs to see what would happen. We were able to hear the audio, but still not see the video in PowerPoint. Help!! Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397155
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    - Presentation on TV This is probably a silly question, but can I copy a presentation to a CD and run it on a normal TV? Thanks Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397152
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    - PPT2003 to PPT2007 Conversion Problem I have a very frustrating problem in changing from PPT 2003 to PPT 2007. The problem is in animating the entrance of bullet points one at a time from the Slide during a Slide Show. With 2003 you could just animate the entrance of each object in the order you wanted them to come in and they looked great. The objects I am using are text bullet points with text shadowing. With the same slide shown in 2007 there is a black background of the text that resides on the slide when animating the entrance of each object before the object is clicked for entrance on to the screen. I am wits end in trying to figure out to solve this problem. -- DaveInArnold Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397146
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    - PowerPoint on a web page I use FrontPage exclusively for the website I created for the engineering company I work for. I have an idea fora PowerPoint presentation for our site. My question: How do you set up a PowerPoint presentation on a website so that the "show" automatically begins as soon as the hyperlink takes the user to the presentation? When I preview the website, the hyperlink takes you there but you have to "start" the pgm. Appreicate yr help. Cindita Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397141
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    - username prompt hi, im totally useless at using office so hope someone can help me. Im oding a powerpoint presentation but whenever I try any change anything like font, it always prompts me to reenter my username and initial. it is becoming really annoying. i wondering if anyone knows how to turn it off or how to fix it? im using office student 2007 thanks Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397138
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    - AVI plays too slow I am trying to insert looped videos of cardiac ultrasounds into a presentation. The AVIs play fine in Windows Media Player. When I insert them in PPT 2007 they play VERY slowly. I have done this with previous versions of PPT without trouble. Can anyone help? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397137
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    - Add watermark programmatically. Hi, We have a need to post PP slides on our web site. To protect our presentations we thought of saving them as PDF with watermark. From other posts I can see how this can be done manually (master slide change). Is there a way to automate this process ? i.e create add-in/ program that will: 1) open the PP file 2) add a textbox â??Do not use without our permissionâ?¦â?? to the master slide 3) save as PDF Thanks Yosi Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397136
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    - Reuse slides changes text to underline format A PowerPoint 2007 file: Any textbox that is not a standard placeholder in the incoming slide changes to underline format. The rest of the formatting (font, color, size) holds, but everything gets underlined. I have checked the "keep source formatting" box before inserting, I have copied and pasted the entire slide and also just content into a blank slide (and also selected "keep source formatting"), but no matter what, I cannot get the text to come in not underlined. It is only one file that is doing this...but behaves this way no matter what the source file for the imported slide is. I have tried to update the default text box to be sure it is not underlined...but that seems to have no effect. Any ideas? -- bh529 Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397135
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    - Play Multiple Shows at the same time I have an odd request. Does aynone know how to play multiple shows at the same time? I don't want to combine the shows, because although they are similar, they are different, if that makes any sense. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397129
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    - Powerpoint 2007 Add-in problem Hello, I have an odd one...About a dozen users in our Australian office use a product called 'Aztec Temple' which includes add-in's for office products. The add-in's pull data from a database on the network to produce graphs and charts on the fly in (primarily) powerpoint presentations. My users have reported that at, or around, june 1st 2008, the add-in stopped working. In working with the developer of the application, we were able to reproduce the failure by running the following simple macro: Sub macro1() ' Macro recorded 21/08/2008 by let ' ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes.AddOLEObject(Left:=120#, Top:=110#, Width:=480#, _ Height:=320#, ClassName:="MSGraph.Chart", Link:=msoFalse).Select ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.OLEFormat.Activate With ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange .Left = 120# .Top = 109.875 .Width = 480# .Height = 320.25 End With ActiveWindow.Selection.Unselect End Sub On the australian machines, the line: ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.OLEFormat.Activate causes the following error to be displayed: Microsoft Visual Basic Run-time error '-2147188160 (80048240)' OLEFormat (unknown member) : Invalid request. Could not activate OLE object. My test machines in the USA and Europe do not exibit this behavior. The macro works properly and creates a graph. I've done the 'standard' troubleshooting on these Ausie machines - reinstalled products, removed KB's that were deployed around the time the users started experiencing the issues, rebuit the WMI repository (hail mary). So far, no luck. Any help one this issue would be greatly appreciated! LBA Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397128
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    - How do I remove page numbers from Powerpoint slide presentation? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397127
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    - Clipart has layers When I create a piece of clipart using a picture or even a graphic and save it as a .wmf file then go back into edit the cipart it has duplicated itself into several layers. It didn't use to do this and I'm wondering if there is something i can do to stop it from happening. it's time consuming to edit when I have to delete all the layers. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397126
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    - Copy/Paste cell formatting in tables in PowerPoint2007 I have verified that when copy/pasting a row of cells in a table in PowerPoint 2003, the formatting (specifically fill color) is carried over successfully. However, we cannot get the same function to work in PowerPoint 2007. We have tried Paste Special but that only brings up an option for HTML, which does not carry over the fill formatting. We have tried using the format painter, but that appears to do nothing at all. Can someone please advise how to get the formatting of cells (specifically fills) to copy/paste properly in a table in PowerPoint 2007? This is being tried with a new blank table inserted via the Insert -> Table command in PowerPoint. No external data/tables have been used in our testing. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397120
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    - Change Slide Orientation for one slide in PowerPoint 2007 Hello, I have a PowerPoint 2007 presentation with 20 slides. I need to make the Orientation for one of the slide Potrait but when I do all of them change to Potrait. Is there a way to change the Orientation for one slide. Thanks, Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397115
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    - Charts do not display all of data in data table I am trying to make several different types of graphs in PowerPoint 2007. I need to make bar charts and pie charts. When I enter the data powerpoint stops displaying the data after four values are entered. For example, in a pie chart I have about 10 categories of data, all of which add up to 100%. When I enter the data in the excel spreadsheet, it will only diplay the first four categories and ignores the rest. I have tried moving the display area boundary in excel, have re-entered the data on multiple charts, saved it as .pptx file, etc. but nothing seems to help. I get the same problem with the bar charts - they only display four different categories of data despite having six in the datasheet. I cannot find anything about this in any of the Powerpoint books that I have. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397114
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    - My presentation will not play on other computers. Hi, I recently done my first powerpoint presentation for a friends coursework. I saved it to a USB memory stick and it played back fine. However when he tries to play it back on his laptop or his college computer it doesn't work. Please could someone help me to find out what I have done wrong? And to then advise me how to save it on the USB memory stick so he can just plug it into his college computer and it just starts the slideshow. Many thanks in advance for any advice. Denise Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397098
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    - Looping an animation I have three circle that appear, then fade out one after another to look like radio waves being transmitted. Can i get the three animations loop 4 or five times? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397095
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    - Movie I would like to place text in front of a movie. Despite sending the move to the back as sson as it begins playing the text in front of it disappears. Any suggestions Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397085
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    - Passing parameters? Although I have a basic understanding of inter-marco parameter passing I seem to be doing something wrong (see code extract below). It will work sending strings in quotes but does not accept String variables. The called macro: Sub Recieve(TextA,TextB,TextC as String,ValueA,ValueB,ValueC as integer) MSGBOX(TextA) 'test to show they arrive (others not shown here) . . . . End Sub The calling Macro: Sub SendTextandValues() Dim MyTextA, MyTextB, MyTextC as String Dim MyValue1, MyValue2, MyValue3 as Integer MyTextA="Text_A" MyTextB="Text_B" MyTextC="Text_C" MyValue1= 1 MyValue2= 2 MyValue3= 3 'using call Call Recieve(TextA,TextB,TextC,ValueA,ValueB,ValueC) . . 'not using call doesn't work either as here: ' Recieve TextA,TextB,TextC,ValueA,ValueB,ValueC . . . End Sub Any suggestions please? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397079
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    - Deploy .gif Bullets Hi, I need to deploy company bullets as .gif files to many Powerpoint 2007 users so that they are accessible when opening the "pictuer bulleting" menu. I read that there was a possibility using ".mmc" files and some registry keys but this seems not to be working for O2k7. Do you know how to realize that best? Thank you in advance! Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397077
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    - Microsoft Agents with PowerPoint 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I apologise if this proves to be a dumb question. I am to deliver a presentation at a conference in December and thought I would use a couple of agents for a couple of slides. Can someone point me towards some simple instructions on how to show agents, have them do their stuff and then close automatically with designated slides? Thanks in advance, Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397076
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    - to connect powerpoint with database Is it possible to connect database with Powerpoint. If it is possible please give me the steps to connect with database and powerpoint With thanks Polachan Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397071
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    - microsoft producer 2003 Hi. I need to convert .ppt or .pps files into video (avi, mpeg, and so on). I have been trying Microsoft Producer 2003 for Powerpoint, but after doing some tests, now I can't open any .ppt or .pps file. It always says this message: "C:\temp2\Active.ppt could not be imported. Microsoft Producer was unable to import the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. See the topic Working with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in the Microsoft Producer Help for more information." I have tried to uninstall and install it again but it was useless. By the way, in c:\temp2 there is no any other file than Active.ppt. Question 1: could you tell me something about this problem? Question 2: Could you recommend me any free software (or not very expensive) to convert powerpoint files into video? Thank you very much. Regards, Mig.En. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397070
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    - Austin That's just a good buy! And thank you for your expertise. Come back soon Jean Pierre Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397069
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    - One more animated gif question No matter what I set the repeat rate in an animated gif when inserted into powerpoint 2007 it loops continuously. Is there any way around this? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397066
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    - Newbe Question - Looking for a Racing Theme PPT We are having a school auction with a racing theme. Maybe checkered flag or running a race. Any help here or ideas where I can find what I need apreciated Kajunlion South Louisiana Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397064
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    - Using an animated gif as a bullet i know you can use a custom symbol as a bullet in a bullet list including a standard gif file. Is there a way to use an animated gif as a bullet in a powerpoint list? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397061
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    - Interesting Problem I work for a group of physicians who do a lot of presentations nationally and internationally. One of them showed me something today I've never seen before: He opens up a presentation on his laptop (WinXP Pro, Office 2003). The presentation has several avi and mpeg movies on various slides. We run through it, everything works fine. We then connect his laptop to a projector via VGA cable to display the slideshow to the as-yet-to-arrive audience. We go through the presentation once again and some of the media files do not work! Somehow the links have been broken by simply connecting the laptop to an external display. Fortunately, he has a copy of Fix Links so a few seconds later everything is working again. The presentation and media files are all in the same folder - my understanding was that PowerPoint would look for the location that the file was originally linked from, if it didn't exist, it would then look in the folder that holds the presentation. If the media files were there, they would play. I have never seen the simple act of connecting to an external display break the links in a presentation before. He told me this had been happening to him and frankly, I didn't believe him until I saw it with my own eyes today. Anyone experience anything like this before? Dave Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397055
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    - Extracting images from PPT file I need to extract images from a PPT file. For those of you that don't know what a PPT file is it is a Microsoft Power Point File. I can't do several of the methods used as this is going to be web based. I can't have the users save the Power Point project as an HTML project either. There basically going to come to this site i will develop and then upload there PPT file and it will extract the images from the PPT file and then put it on the server temporarily and make and XML. The XML file and the images will be put into a zip folder that they can download. That is basically what is going to happen. My problem is i can't get the images from the PPT file. I was planning on doing this with PHP but i don't know if it is even possible. Also the servers this will take place on are UNIX based. If you have any hints or any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397049
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    - Powerpoint alignment issues When I open older 2003 versions of powerpoint in 2007, most all the alignment of text boxes and headings are slightly off by a space or two. Also, text boxes are often covered up. In addition, when typing in a text box, the cursor is a space below what you can see on the slide. Any assistance would be appreciated. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397021
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    - Insert a scrolling worksheet in Powerpoint I am using Powerpoint 2003. I need to insert a long Excel spreadsheet into a single slide and animate it to scroll through the entire sheet. Any ideas how to accomplish this? Thanks. Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397019
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    - Can date formats be added or edited in PowerPoint 2007? I am trying to insert an auto updating date into a PowerPoint Presentation using PowerPoint 2007 and need to use the date format YYMMDD. Any Suggestions? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397016
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    - Can I show the Windows Desktop in a Powerpoint slide I have a monitoring program I need to view on an LCD TV, but I would also like to show a constant recycling PowerPoint presentation as well. If possible, I would like to have powerpoint show the Windows Desktop during the presentation just like it would a slide. Basically, I would have the powerpoint run with 20sec delays on each slide and then cut to the desktop for about 2mins. While on the desktop I could see my 2 open windows showing my monitoring programs, then it would cycle again. Any ideas? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397012
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    - White text in PowerPoint2000 I have a user that needs to use white text in her slides. The problem is that the background of the text box is also white. She has to either set the font a different color, or use a background fill (of, say, light gray) in order to see the text as she enters it. Then she has to reset the colors to white again once she is happy with her input. Anyone have any ideas for simpler ways of work with white text here? Ideally, I would like to change the color of the text box background as a default, but I realize this might be a tall order. TIA Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397010
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    - How do I get animated text boxes to show over top of wmv on a slid I have inserted a wmv in a slide, I have 3 seperate text boxes that I have animated, and set to enter on top of the wmv (which is the background). But the animated text boxes do not come in over top the wmv. PPT 2003 Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 397008
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    - Powerpoint on Flat screen - PPI? For printed material i set up photoshop documents at 300ppi, for online images, use 72ppi. If i am creating a powerpoint presentation to beused on a plasma TV, what ppi setting should I use? Thanks Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396995
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    - flashing or pulsating text How can text be created to flash or pulsate in Powerpoint? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396992
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    - Protection of a presentation Can i protect a presentation so that when i mail it to someone they will not be able to save or edit the document? They must only be able to view the presentation from within the e-mail. Regards -- Ani Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396990
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    - Audio fade Is it possible to make audio fade (slowly decrease in volume) at the end of a slide? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396988
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    - Can text overflow into a new slide? As you're typing in a textbox, the text shrinks down to fit the text box(if that setting is on) or the box just keeps getting bigger. Is there a way to make the text "overflow" into a new slide? Or is this just asking too much of PP? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396981
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    - Audio and Animation If I have a series of animations, how would I get audio to play throughout that animation sequence? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396976
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    - Change orientation of a single PowerPoint slide? Is there a way to change orientation of a single PowerPoint slide within a presentation? Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396969
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    - Adding a presentation template to the presentations collection (C# Hi I am coding using Visual C#. I can add a Word 2007 document as a template to the documents collection like this: Word.Application w_app; Word._Document odoc; w_app = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application(); odoc = w_app.Documents.Add(ref file, ref missing, ref missing, ref objFalse); I want to do the same for PowerPoint 2007. The Presentation.Add() method does not add a presentation template. How can I do this? Lucy Tag: Errors on linked excel objects Tag: 396966

I have copied over several schedules from the same excel spreadsheet but on
some of them I get these silver rectangles appearing in the presentation that
arent on the original spreadsheet.

How do I get rid of these
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Kind Regards

Peter Bebbington

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Re: Errors on linked excel objects by Glen

Glen
Sat Oct 04 00:12:40 CDT 2008

Peter,

I'd need to see one to know what exactly is happening. Any chance you could
send a file or screen shot?

glen at pptworkbench dot com

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Presenter at Office DevCon, Sydney!
http://www.officedevcon.com.au/default.aspx

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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"Peter Bebbington" <PeterBebbington@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1726FE7D-385B-4F1B-A0BE-448058CF78C8@microsoft.com...
>I have copied over several schedules from the same excel spreadsheet but on
> some of them I get these silver rectangles appearing in the presentation
> that
> arent on the original spreadsheet.
>
> How do I get rid of these
> --
> Kind Regards
>
> Peter Bebbington

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