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I'm using PowerPoint 2007 in Windows XP SP3 on my home PC. Here's how I reproduce my problem. Open PowerPoint 2007. Click in a text field. Click Insert in the ribbon. Click Symbol In the Symbol dialog box, the panels of characters do not respond to my mouse clicks.

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It's a little annoying that there's not a quick way to copy-and-paste the results here. Here are the test results: Check for known solutions Completed The cehck for known solutions was completed successfully. There are no solutions which require your attention. Memory Diagnostic Completed No problems were found with your computer's memory. Compatibility Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic found no conflicting versions of Microsoft Office applications installed on your computer. Disk Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic found no evidence of trouble with your hard disk(s).

Setup Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic repaired all Microsoft Office installation problems it could find. Verified 23 package(s). After running the diagnostics, I tried 'Insert Symbol' in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel 2007, and they all have the same problem: the character panels in the Symbol dialog do not respond to mouse clicks. Mobile emulator download mac. Ok, I ran the Office Diagnostics, and got this vague result for the Setup Diagnostic.

It's a little annoying that there's not a quick way to copy-and-paste the results here. Here are the test results: Check for known solutions Completed The cehck for known solutions was completed successfully. There are no solutions which require your attention. Memory Diagnostic Completed No problems were found with your computer's memory. Compatibility Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic found no conflicting versions of Microsoft Office applications installed on your computer.

Disk Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic found no evidence of trouble with your hard disk(s). Setup Diagnostic Completed The diagnostic repaired all Microsoft Office installation problems it could find. Verified 23 package(s).

After running the diagnostics, I tried 'Insert Symbol' in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel 2007, and they all have the same problem: the character panels in the Symbol dialog do not respond to mouse clicks. I'm using PowerPoint 2007 in Windows XP SP3 on my home PC. Here's how I reproduce my problem.

Open PowerPoint 2007. Click in a text field. Click Insert in the ribbon. Click Symbol In the Symbol dialog box, the panels of characters do not respond to my mouse clicks. I have to use the TAB and arrow keys to select the character I want to insert.

Mouse clicks work on all the other controls of the dialog (drop down lists, scroll bar, text field, command buttons), but nothing happens when I click or double-click a character to insert. Click to expand.I found the answer in MS Word newsgroup: microsoft.public.word.application.errors: It turns out that there's a conflict with Microsoft's Tweak UI's X-Mouse (window focus follows the mouse cursor). When X-Mouse is enabled, the characters in the Symbol dialog are not clickable. When X-Mouse is disabled, the characters are clickable. That's too bad, because I like X-Mouse. *sigh* From the Word newsgroup, it looks like this has been a problem since at least Word 2002. It's sad that it still exists and has spread now to PowerPoint.