PowerPoint 2003 acting a little weird since the last update? Like its whining about some text/images being corrupt and then nuking some content? There's a hotfix for that...

Office Deployment Support Team Blog - How to programmatically install the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix related to KB2543241 and KB2464588

"If you have installed the KB2464588 update for Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, which is related to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-022, you may be aware of/experiencing the following known issues:

When you open presentations that contain layouts with background images in PowerPoint 2003, an error may occur. When the error occurs, you receive a message that states that some contents (text, images, or objects) have corrupted. You can determine what content has been lost by viewing the layout, but not by viewing the slide content. Items that were removed will display a blank box or a box that contains "cleansed."

The KB2543241 hotfix was created to alleviate these issues. The following steps can be used to install the KB2543241 hotfix in a manner that is conducive to an enterprise environment (i.e., via command line, silently, and requiring no user interaction):

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10) For further information on the KB2543241 and KB2464588 updates & hotfixes, see the following blog posts, articles, and bulletin:

Office Sustained Engineering and Release Team Blog post, "Issues after installing PowerPoint 2003 update KB2464588"
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/04/23/issues-after-installing-powerpoint-2003-update-kb2464588.aspx

KB2543241 Description of the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2543241

Office Sustained Engineering and Release Team Blog post, "April 2011 Office Security Update Release"
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/04/12/april-2011-office-security-update-release.aspx

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-022 - Important
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2489283)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-022.mspx

KB2464588 MS11-022: Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2003: April 12, 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2464588

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Office Sustained Engineering > Issues after installing PowerPoint 2003 update KB2464588

"Some users have contacted Microsoft support (and found their way to the blog comment feature) to ask for a remedy to the background images issue identified in the KB article relating to our PowerPoint 2003 April 2011 Public Update.

We had mentioned earlier that we intended to make a hotfix available as quickly as possible to address the situation. We have now posted an update to fix this issue. The KB article is here, and the download is here. You can manually download and install or deploy the fix. The new KB number is 2543241.

In our June Public Update release, we will release the update through the Automatic Update channel, where any remaining users will be updated with the changes." [GD: Post Leached in full]

MS11-022: Description of the security update for PowerPoint 2003: April 12, 2011

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Known issues with this security update

When you open presentations that contain layouts with background images in PowerPoint 2003, an error may occur. When the error occurs, you receive a message that states that some contents (text, images, or objects) have corrupted. You can determine what content has been lost by viewing the layout, but not by viewing the slide content. Items that were removed will display a blank box or a box that contains "cleansed."

Resolution

To resolve this issue, install hotfix 2543241. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

2543241 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2543241/ ) Description of the Office PowerPoint 2003 hotfix package

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Microsoft Support - Description of the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix package

"This article describes the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 issues that are fixed in the PowerPoint 2003 hotfix package.

Issues that this hotfix package fixes

When you open presentations that contain layouts with background images in PowerPoint 2003, an error may occur. When the error occurs, you receive a message that states that some contents (text, images, or objects) have corrupted. You can determine what content has been lost by viewing the layout, but not by viewing the slide content. Items that were removed will display a blank box or a box that contains "cleansed."

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I'd been bitten with this issue and hadn't seen the "know issue" item (since I usually just install everything on Patch Tuesday via Windows Update and don't usually dig down deep into each related KB...). Anyway...

Since I'd been hit by this, and that the hotfix fixed me right up, I thought I'd share...