Please Help With Powerpoint Template

[ChickenHawk]

I have a Powerpoint Template (Office 2000) that I frequently use which was provided by someone else in my company. It has 2 things that are driving me crazy.

1. Whenever I open a presentation using this template it attempts to read my A: drive and issues message: POWERPOINT.EXE - No Disk. There is no disk in drive A:

This only happens when I use that template. I've searched every menu option and can't find where the reference to A: is.

2. Every slide layout in this template has built-in animation for the text areas. It is such a pain to have to disable this each time I add a new slide (Slide Show/Custom Animations...)

Can someone tell me how to change the default for the template so it has no animations. Then I can add them only for the places I want them.

Thanks in advance!
ChickenHawk

 

[onedtent]

u probably have an object in the template that came from drive A:. Chances are it is a clipart or a picture of some sort.

u may want to go to Edit, Links and see if there are any links. The best way to break a link like this is to change source to the file itself.

If there are no links then, u may want to go to View, Master, Slide Master and remove each object one at a time, save the presentation with a different name and open to see if u get the prompt.

The animation is probably part of the master also. Turn it off there and see if it relieves stress.

 

[ChickenHawk]

You got the "Custom Animation" part !! Thank You!

I still haven't been able to locate anything that references the A: drive in the template or Master.

Funny thing is: If I put a BLANK formatted diskette in A: you can see it do the seek but it doesn't issue any error message. So, it isn't looking for a specific file, but must be looking at the directory or some-such-thing.

Unfortunately, this isn't an option when using my laptop away from the base in which case I have no A: drive. It makes me hit 'Abort' around six times before it gives up and lets me use the presentation.

Has anyone else ever seen this?

Thanks again,
ChickenHawk