Hotfix for Security Update MS11-022 released publicly as MS11-036 MS11-036: Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2002: May 10, 2011 Security Update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 (KB2535802) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2535802...

There have been several issues that occur when editing charts in PowerPoint 2007 after Service Pack 2 is installed, or hotfix KB966311 is installed. The main symptom is PowerPoint will stop responding (hang) when you are working on a chart. You'll see...

If you don’t see any shapes window on the left of a new drawing after you upgrade to Visio 2010 go to the View tab, click on Task Panes , and click on Shapes Shapes window missing above You should now have the shapes pane. This is a toggle, on/off setting...

If you have a PowerPoint file from a previous version and haven't upgraded the video object yet, you can still use the Play Across Slides under the Video Tools/Playback tab. The term " upgraded the video object " in 2010 refers to either 1) File tab...

MS12-060 is a security update that was released Tuesday, August 14, 2012. This update replaced MS12-027. Some may be seeing "Unspecified Automation Error" when running your Microsoft Office VBA code after installing MS12-060. Update: We have redeployed...

We recently released knowledge base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982954 addressing an issue with certain MPEG-2 files inserting into PowerPoint. There were a few workarounds we suggest. One of which is installing an MPEG-2 codec. PowerPoint...

We’ve had a couple reports of users saving as PDF from Visio using the Microsoft Save As PDF/XPS add-in that now ships with Office 2007 SP2. What happens is when you try to save a Visio drawing as PDF you receive an error message: "This file is open...

Here’s an issue I saw recently that was a head scratcher but found a fix so wanted to share. You have a chart in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you want to edit the data in the chart so you right-click the chart, click Edit Data but nothing happens,...

Microsoft Photo Editor Error Reading File With Security Update MS10-105 (KB2289162) installed. We found it happens if the image has a width of 2,731 or greater. If you open the image in Paint and go to Image menu, Attributes… (CTRL+E), change the Width...

When you open a publication (*.pub) in Publisher you may get the following message: “ Publisher had detected a problem in the file you are trying to open. If you are certain that this file came from a trusted source and does not contain harmful information...

PowerPoint 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276463 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2386377 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276482 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276471 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2345310 PowerPoint 2010 ...

We have seen reports of PowerPoint presentations hanging whenever trying to open a presentation that uses Information Rights Management (IRM) after you apply MS12-057. Additionally, the reports go on to say that a new file may hang when you try to apply...

After you install PowerPoint 2013 or Office 2013 click-to-run and launch PowerPoint 2013 it may crash, giving you the following error: "Microsoft PowerPoint has stopped working". This problem can happen when the DisplayLinkManager driver is installed...

We are seeing a few cases where the VBA component of the Office 2013 apps stop functioning. The applications are working properly when installed. Then a few days later VBA buttons no longer work. Here are the scenarios that we have seen: PowerPoint...

I recently had a user who was getting a blank pop-up when starting PowerPoint 2010. It was working in 2007. The first thing I though was ADD-IN!!! We tried starting PowerPoint in Office safe mode (hold down CTRL key while starting PowerPoint and click...

You select a link to download an Office 2010 Trial (Office suite, Visio, Project). After selecting a ‘Try This’ link, and providing a Windows Live ID, you receive a confirmation page with an Install Now link: However, clicking this link automatically...

There is an issue affecting Visio 2003 and 2007 users when they use the Search for Shapes feature. This is caused by a combination of the permanent retirement of the Shape Search servers and a temporary server redirection problem. Normally Visio 2003...

This may also occur with Office 2010 also. Check to see if you have any document management software installed that adds shell extensions. The last case with this issue I saw was using something called Lotus Document Manager 6.5.1 . We uninstalled that...

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