Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Office XP Released

PPTools
Shape Styles brings the power of styles to PowerPoint. Apply complex formatting with a single click
Merge Excel, CSV or tab-delimited data into PowerPoint presentations to create certificates, awards presentations, personalized presentations and more
FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations
Optimizer saves disk space and bandwidth, shrinks your PowerPoint presentations to the right size for email, screenshow or printing
PPT2HTML gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements
Prep4PDF preserves interactivity in PowerPoint presentations when you convert to PDF
Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to JPG, PNG, GIF, WMF and more

This page gives a summary of the changes included in SP2 and includes links to other pages where you can download the service pack.

SP2 for Office XP and other updates are available here

WARNING
After you apply SP2, you may start getting "Server not found" error messages when you doubleclick graphs, tables and other embedded (OLE) items.

Microsoft has addressed the problem in this KB article

Beth Melton, an Office MVP, linked the OLE problems up with Norton AntiVirus 2002. She, Brian Reilly, Echo Swinford and Sonia Coleman tested the solution and provided the following information:

• Open Norton AntiVirus
• Click on Options (if you have SystemWorks)
• Under Other --> Miscellaneous uncheck the "Enable Office Plug in" check box under "How to keep Microsoft Office documents protected"

Disabling this option will not leave you totally unprotected. It won't affect the way NAV scans incoming email attachments, even though they're Office documents. If in doubt, you can always manually scan any doubtful files before opening them in Office.

This MS Knowledgebase article has more detailed instructions. Thanks, Rory!

Follow this link for other causes of The server application, source file, or item can't be found messages

Numbering
Office XP SP1 changed the way PowerPoint numbers slides in certain circumstances. If you rely on an add-in that exports images from PowerPoint, you may want to check with the add-in's developer before updating PowerPoint with any of the service packs.

Search terms:

Contents © 1995-2008 Stephen Rindsberg, Rindsberg Photography, Inc. and members of the MS PowerPoint MVP team. You may link to this page but any form of unauthorized reproduction of this page's contents is expressly forbidden.

content authoring & site maintenance by

Friday - The Automatic FAQ Maker