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Welcome to these tutorials, many of which were unique concepts when first published!

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2007: features of Office and PowerPoint

finding outlook 2007 contacts ] search for new templates from with in PowerPoint ] mark as final ] 3d catchment in 2007 ] wrap around in 2007 ] shape effects in 2007 ] [ troubleshoot 2007 errors ]


 

Troubleshooting 2007 errors

Logic: a new feature when your program throws an error

This is a brilliant new feature in PowerPoint 2007. (Actually, it is supported in previous version but is native in 2007).

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When you are working in 2007, you get some sort of error occur.

error dialog box

You can click the Show Help button for more information. Brilliant.

error dialog box help

But there's more! With the Dialog Box open, hit the keyboard shortcut of <Control + Shift + I>.

Suddenly a number pops up in the corner called an AlertID.

error AlertID

Go to this page and type the number in:

http://support.microsoft.com/

Online Help Result

You (may) get an article specific to that error. Open the link and you find out you were trying to open a file type PowerPoint 2007 cannot handle. Now, the articles are not always spot on, but sometimes they give you specify a work-around! That is COOL!

 


  

 

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