PPT97: Error Linking to Free Stuff from PowerPoint Central (161027)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

This article was previously published under Q161027

SYMPTOMS

Slide Two of the PowerPoint Central presentation (Ppcentrl.pps) contains a hyperlink named:

   See the free stuff on my Office 97 CD-ROM.

If you are running a copy of PowerPoint that you installed from a network, and you try to follow this link, you may receive this error message:

   Could not open <path>\valupack\overview.pps. Please make sure the
   Office CD is available. If you installed from the network, please
   ask your network administrator to copy the valupack files also.

CAUSE

The Office and PowerPoint 97 compact discs contain a folder named ValuPack. This folder contains additional fonts, templates, clips, and add-ons for the Microsoft Office 97 products. When you run a network administrative setup of Office or PowerPoint (Setup /A), Setup creates a folder called ValuPack underneath the Office folder. However, most of the additional content in the \ValuPack folder on the compact disc is not copied to this folder.

One file which is not copied to the network server is Overview.pps. This is the file to which the PowerPoint Central presentation links. Setup does not copy the Value Pack material to the network server in order to save disk space.

RESOLUTION

If you want to be able to use the Value Pack material, you must manually copy the contents of the \ValuPak folder on your Office 97 or PowerPoint 97 compact disc to the \ValuPak folder on your network server.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	11/9/2000
Keywords:	kberrmsg kbnetwork kbprb kbualink97 kbweb KB161027