Live office based dashboard - issue in Exporting to PPT

Hello All,
We're currently developing dashboards on sap bw queries.
The architecture is SAP BW Query->WEBI 4.0 -> LIve OFfice->Dashboard
Everything is working as expected and we're able to execute dashboards on Infoview.
But, there seems to be some issue when we try to export the dashboard to power point.
We get a strange message "Error #2060".
When we export to pdf , it works as expected.
We have implemented all steps required to make the file/folder Trusted :
<To make a file trusted in Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager
If you want to run a model locally, you must add the file location to the trusted locations in the Adobe
Flash Player Settings Manager.
1. To open the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager, go to http://www.macromedia.com/support/doc
umentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html.
2. On the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager page, in the "Table of Contents", click Global Security
Panel Settings.
3. Select the Always Allow option.
4. In the Always trust files in these locations list, select Edit locations > Add location.
5. Browse to the location of the SWF file (or container file such as PowerPoint, HTML, and so on) and
click Open.
6. Click Confirm.>
Aslo , we have updated the crossdomain.xml file in the root folder ,the new crossdomain.xml file is as below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
"http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd ">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="" headers="" secure="false" />
<allow-access-from domain="*" secure="false" />
</cross-domain-policy>
We are successfully able to execute dashboards when exported to PDF files,
but when we try the same with word or powerpoint it throws error #2060.
Any pointers with respect to this is highly appreciated.
Thanks and Regards,
Vinay

Hello all,
We were able to resolve the issue by adding the Office folder ( in program files)
in the trusted files/folder path of adobe global security panel settings.
Thanks and regards,
Vinay

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