Hi  
  
PowerPoint 2003 has just started giving me a persistent error message: "Set  
  
profiles first, please", occasionally interspersed with another: "Server  
  
busy" (this is on a self contained laptop- no server). I can't find any  
  
reference to these error messages in the MS Knowledge Base. Have tried a  
  
Detect and Repair on PowerPoint, but no change. Has anyone come acorss this  
  
issue, and figured out a fix?

sshall  
  
sounds like you could have the GretagMacbeth color addin running  
  
see  
  
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.powerpoint/browse_thread/thread/79a697ac92c2ba03/1d2ced310b9aeb39?lnk=st&q=%22set+profiles+first%22&rnum=1&hl=en#1d2ced310b9aeb39  
  
Cheers  
  
TAJ Simmons  
  
microsoft powerpoint mvp  
  
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"sshall" <sshall@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message  
  
news:34F02E90-865E-4F9C-9D90-161216641B48@microsoft.com...

In article <8468B3D8-17D5-4D3A-91F5-5051DB445787@microsoft.com>, Sshall wrote:  
  
As mentioned in the google thread Taj linked to, if you choose a profile once, it  
  
shouldn't bother you again.  The profile's never used until you convert the  
  
presentation for onscreen use, so this is probably the best solution if you intend to  
  
use the addin from time to time.  
  
You can also locate the PPA file for the addin and rename it to e.g. .PPB extension  
  
to disable it (this while PPT is NOT running, please!)  
  
There should be no need to uninstall it totally.  
  
Unless you don't use it, in which case there's no much point to having it installed  
  
;-)  
  
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.powerpoint/browse_thread/thread/79a69  
  
7ac92c2ba03/1d2ced310b9aeb39?lnk=st&q=%22set+profiles+first%22&rnum=1&hl=en#1d2ced310  
  
b9aeb39  
  
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP  
  
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