OK, using a combination of advices from here, I pared down the file until I
found just the one picture that is "phoning home". It does it when I open
the .ppt from the hard drive, does not rely on outlook at all. Apparently
when I opened the big file from the hard drive, it only displayed the first
page, and did not "run" any of the later pages, but when I opened it from
Outlook, it would "run" the later pages upon first opening it.
I think it is a .jpg. Can you embed automatic stuff inside a .jpg?
Anyhoo, I will email this to Steve, thanks for looking at it.


"clea" wrote in message
...
Ha!
Yes, always-on high speed connection, active all the time.
It is about 800K file, and yes proprietary.
Now that I know about sending it to myself and it still has it, i will
retry
the cut-it-in-half idea until I can localize which page(s) do this. I
will try to find a non-proprietary page, or delete the text or graphics,
and
send you the problem.
thanks
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"Steve Rindsberg" wrote in message
...
In article , Clea wrote:
I saved the message as text, didn't notice anything. Then I took the
saved
file from my hard drive, created a new email, attached the file, sent
it
to
myself, and I still get the popup about web access! So now I think it
rules
out the email and points back to the .ppt !!?!!

Oh geez. If it gets any weirder, we're gonna have to arm you against
snarling
alien heads exploding out of your monitor. ;-)

But one thing: are you on an always-on net connection? Is the
connection
active both when you're opening the presentation from Outlook and when
you're
opening the PPT itself, standalone?