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FIX: "PowerPoint was unable to open or save this document" error after you modify an embedded PowerPivot table

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Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
  • You have Microsoft Office 2010 together with the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot add-in installed on a computer.
  • You have a PowerPoint presentation that contains an Excel table in one of the slides.
  • You open the PowerPoint presentation, and you double-click on the Excel table to edit it.
  • You go to another PowerPoint slide after you edit the Excel table.
  • You try to save the PowerPoint presentation.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message:
PowerPoint was unable to open or save this document. Please ensure that you have access privileges to read or write the document and that it is not encrypted.

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Resolution

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.

Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2012 SP1

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Workaround

To work around the issue, either deactivate the PowerPivot add-in in Excel or use Microsoft Office 2013 instead of Office 2010.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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Keywords: kbqfe, kbfix, kbsurveynew, kbexpertiseadvanced, kb

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Article Info
Article ID : 2900127
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 11/28/2013
Exists online : False
Views : 136