Dear All,
I will be needing help as soon as possible. My boss created a presentation on his laptop. This is a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation that was made from Microsoft 2003. As my boss will be on compliance leave, he wants me to go to the presentation and practice as I will be the one presenting it in his absence.
Too bad the presentation cannot be move after my boss arrives. It was just fine with me. So I have extracted the presentation in our shared drive. But then I am having an issue viewing it. It says that I am attempting to open a file type that is blocked by my registry policy setting. I badly need help. The presentation will be in three weeks, and I cannot open the file. I do not want to disturb my boss from his compliance leave. Techs, please help as soon as possible.
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First of all, exit your PowerPoint.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileOpenBlock
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileOpenBlock
Dear Carl,
Your presentation has been locked by your boss in the registry.
To remove the lock please follows these steps:
1. First, take a backup of the data as changing registry with an error could seriously lose your data,
2. Click Start,
3. Find “regedit.exe” (See image below), a separate window will open
4. Then go on Clicking on the drop down menu HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Security\FileOpenBlock,
5. Search for DWORD value file,
6. Right click the DWORD value file,
7. Click on Modify,
8. Change the value data to 0 (used for blocking) instead of 1 (used for unblocking),
9. Click ok,
10. From the file menu exist from the registry.
Now you will be able to open the presentation.