I swear to God, I thought I lost my completed PowerPoint presentation for my Code Camp 4 talk on Saturday. I brought up PowerPoint 2003, expecting to see CC4.ppt in the task pane file list and it wasn't there. I searched my presentations directory. Wasn't there. Searched the backup folders (I backup every day to two other machines on my office network.) Wasn't there.
I came to the conclusion that God hated me and because I simply couldn't solve the mystery, started the process of re-creating the PowerPoint, beginning with unzipping Thom Robbins' PPT Template .ZIP. When I did that, WinZip displayed a popup saying "The file c:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\temp\CC4.PPT already exists. Do you want to overwrite it?"
I searched my entire computer for all PPTs and it wasn't there, but "what the heck," I thought, and took a look at it anyway. Wooo-hooo! It was my completed PowerPoint Presentation!
What happened was that I started with the CC3 template and mid-way updated to the CC4 template after my wife showed me how to do an Insert-->Slides from Files to copy the contents over to the new template. (She does way more presentations that I do...) That process created a PPT in my Local Settings\Temp directory, which obviously is not searched nor listed in the PowerPoint TaskPane recent files list.
Some fun! Now for even bigger fun, it's time to go through my presentation again. I have to turn off the music now. I hate a silent office.
