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On the Start menu, All Programs, Microsoft Office (2003), she simply dragged Powerpoint onto the desktop instead of doing the smart thing and clicking to see if there was a "create a shortcut" button. Never mind, it was very late at night. Anyway, she now has PPt on the desktop and not amongst those programs under Microsoft Office. The upshot is that when she tries to create a PPt, it's fine; BUT after it's closed it can't be opened (it opens but with a "somethings is corrupted" message and then closes). I can copy the PPt file to my laptop (which has a really old version of PPt) and it opens and works just fine, so I figure the problem on my main computer must have something to do with my dumb mistake. Now:

QUESTIONS: "My Computer" has "Add or Delete Programs"; when I click on Microsoft Office there is a "if you are having trouble with a program you can click on the REINSTALL button to fix it." Will this put PPt back where it belongs? Or, is it possible to drag the PPt icon on the desktop into this "Add/Delete Programs" Microsoft Office file? Or, there must be a copy of the program on the system backup external drive (remember? you helped me buy it at Office Max whenever it was you were here), but I'm very very fuzzy about what I should do with it.

I can, of course, always take my hard drive to a computer guru and have him fix it, but I'm terribly broke right now.

ADVICE? THANKS! Sigh . . .

QUESTIONS: "My Computer" has "Add or Delete Programs"; when I click on Microsoft Office there is a "if you are having trouble with a program you can click on the REINSTALL button to fix it." Will this put PPt back where it belongs?