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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Hello:
I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once
it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Steve:
Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he
Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Ok Steve:
I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. I have already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Bowdri,
Do you have Fast Saves turned on? (Tools-- Options-- Save tab) If so, uncheck the box, close the options, and re-save the file under a new name. It may shrink enough that you can work with the file again.... -- Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive/com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "Bowdrie" wrote in message ... Ok Steve: I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. I have already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not
in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Sigh. They've moved the furniture around, and us here with blindfolds and the lights out. I notice that the links to this on their own pages are busted too. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. Whew! Good! already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Were you saving to removable media (floppies/zips/direct to CD/thumb drive/etc) when this happened? Or to a network drive? If so, stick to the local HDD. That might have been the problem. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Kathy J and Steve:
One slide at a time and save. I found the problem. It did not want to open after saving a slide that had a AVI Video clip inserted with a .WAV file that played when the Video clip ran. Without the .WAV it opens fine. I don't understant that because the option to insert the sound is in the program, and it worked fine when tested after making the slide. Kathy - My Fast Save was turned on and it is now turned off. But, what does that do? I could not find anything about it in the Powerpoint Help section. I did also note that there is a feature called Auto Recovery also there, and it IS turned on to save every 10 minutes. According to the Help Section it is suppose to save to the Application Data -- Microsoft -- Powerpoint file. There is nothing there, so it is apparently not working, or I don't understand its function. Thanks, Bodrie. -----Original Message----- Bowdri, Do you have Fast Saves turned on? (Tools-- Options-- Save tab) If so, uncheck the box, close the options, and re-save the file under a new name. It may shrink enough that you can work with the file again.... -- Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive/com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "Bowdrie" wrote in message ... Ok Steve: I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. I have already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . . |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
One slide at a time and save. I found the problem.
It did not want to open after saving a slide that had a AVI Video clip inserted with a .WAV file that played when the Video clip ran. Without the .WAV it opens fine. I don't understant that because the option to insert the sound is in the program, and it worked fine when tested after making the slide. Very nice detective work! Can you repeat this on a single-slide presentation with the same files and have it break again? If so, MS might want to have a look at the files, assuming they're not proprietary. How big are they? Kathy - My Fast Save was turned on and it is now turned off. But, what does that do? With Fast Saves on, PPT sort of tacks on any changes to the end of the existing PPT file rather than storing the changes where they occur in the file. So you have whatever you did PLUS whatever you've redone in the file. Bigger, more complex files (and more susceptible to corruption, it seems). With Fast Saves off, it doesn't do this. I could not find anything about it in the Powerpoint Help section. I did also note that there is a feature called Auto Recovery also there, and it IS turned on to save every 10 minutes. According to the Help Section it is suppose to save to the Application Data -- Microsoft -- Powerpoint file. There is nothing there, so it is apparently not working, or I don't understand its function. Thanks, Bodrie. -----Original Message----- Bowdri, Do you have Fast Saves turned on? (Tools-- Options-- Save tab) If so, uncheck the box, close the options, and re-save the file under a new name. It may shrink enough that you can work with the file again.... -- Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com Featured Presenter at PPT 2004 - http://www.pptlive/com I believe life is meant to be lived. But: if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived "Bowdrie" wrote in message ... Ok Steve: I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. I have already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add-in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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PowerPoint Presentation will not load
Steve:
Re your questions... I was saving directly to a PowerPoint folder within My Documents on my "C" Drive, the hard drive on the computer when it occurred. Using the same file name with which it was created so the whole file was lost. Always afraid of a computer crash - storm, virus, or something. Never figured the Program was going to corrupt me - particularly when it worked while constructing the slide and didn't bust until I did a normal save when completed. But, prior to adding the animations I had burned a CD-R with the file - something I do "sometimes" when I am working on something that has a lot of work in it. Lucky me. No, nothing Proprietary. The .AVI (File Size: 531 KB) and the .WAV (File Size: 32 KB) were clips downloaded off the internet. It is a short clip of a guy pounding his fist on a table and his coffee cup jumps up and down. The sound is a machine gun - the closest thing I could find to a fist pounding sound. :-) You are probably wondering at this - It was to be used with a Chapter Title Slide and a statement "This chapter is important so wake up and pay attention." After reading your message and question this morning, I tried to re-create the slide in a single slide presentation. Same Design Template - same text - Insert Movie from file - (enlarge the movie area on the slide with the corner handles) Custom Animation Window - Effect Options - Effect tab - sounds - other sound - inserted sound from file. Well, by its self it plays well, saves to Power Point file on hard drive and also OPENS back up and still works. - Go figure. In the middle of the 65 slide presentation I had to remove the sound from the clip before it would save and then re-open. For my own education and future use - Can you tell me anything about the Auto Recovery feature in Power Point. Mine is on and set for every 10 minutes. According to the help window everything that I did on this presentation should be recoverable from the Auto Recover file and task pane, except the last 10 minutes. A search reveals a number of presentations under my problem file name some, under My coputer, some under C/Recycler, and some in the documents file but none will open properly or provide me any information on them. Perhaps I am not in the correct file, or I am not understanding its function. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- I took a look at your two links. The presentation is not in my Temp folder - as least under a name I can find. The two Microsoft articles are not found in the given links so I don't know what to say about them. Sigh. They've moved the furniture around, and us here with blindfolds and the lights out. I notice that the links to this on their own pages are busted too. Rather than downloading a new and unfamiliar program, I do have a backup of the Title slide and Text portion of the presentation that thankfully I put on a disk. Whew! Good! already tried the Title Slide and several from the new master and inserted several things and animations to them just as a test. It seems to reopen ok so I guess it is not the old title slide that is the problem. I guess my only option is to open the Text slides and start over with the animations and add in's saving under a different name after each slide until I identify where the problem is located. Were you saving to removable media (floppies/zips/direct to CD/thumb drive/etc) when this happened? Or to a network drive? If so, stick to the local HDD. That might have been the problem. Not what I had hoped for but I see no other option at this point. Maybe I have a bad .wav file or something. I'll post again if I don't solve it. Thanks for your help. Bowdrie. -----Original Message----- Rats. If that didnt' work, have a look he Recovering a corrupt presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00108.htm If you have a backup copy of the file, hang onto it. It might be simpler and less time-consuming to revert to the backup and go forward from there. It's a *really* good idea to save periodic backups of your presentation under a new name for just this reason. There's even an add- in for PPT to do the job automatically. See http://www.mvps.org/skp/ In article , Bowdrie wrote: Steve: Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion. The slide finder window opens but when I type in the command line to the "problem" presentation or browse to it and click it all the thumbnails in the slide finder window stay blank and I get a program not responding message. Other presentations open in the slide finder window so the problem has to lay with the "Problem" Presentation. When I try to open it in Powerpoint I am really not sure that it is actually opening because I see none of the slides in the Left side window where all the thumbnails of the program should show. Only the title slide is showing in the the center normal view window. Everything else is frozen and gives me the program not responding message. -----Original Message----- So you can open the presentation but literally can't do anything with it once it's open? If that's correct, then as a test, start a new blank presentation and then use Insert, Slides, From File to insert the slides from your "problem" presentation into the new presentation. You might want to skip that title slide when you do this. If that works, save the file. Then try applying a template from the original presentation; when you select a template to apply, point to your presentation rather than using one of the usual template files supplied by PowerPoint, or revert to the original template design you saved from your '97 CDs. I am running Microsoft XP Pro Version 2002 with a Microsoft Office 2002 Suite containing PowerPoint 2002. Computer is a two month old HP with 106 GB of open space remaining on C Drive and 1 GB of Ram. I have prepared a 65 slide presentation containing mostly Text with inserted Music and Sound clips here and there throughout. Upon competeion I saved the presentation to a PowerPoint Folder in My Documents. When I attempt to reopen it back into Powerpoint for further work the first slide (the Title Slide) appears in the center Normal View Window but the left side window where the Thumbnails of all the slides normally appear contains only white squares with a small icon in the center. The icon contains a small Red Square, a small Green Circle, and a small Blue Triangle. Clicking on anything brings up a window that says the program is not responding. It is frozen and I can do nothing with it, except "X" out of it. Other presentations open Ok, so it seems to be just this presentation. Some points of information ..... The title slide was made first (see next paragraph), except for a Music clip (.mid file) that was inserted on it when all the other animation was done. (Most of the other files are .wav files and a few .avi files.) After the title slide was made the presentation was made by doing the text portion of all the slides first. Then I came back and inserted some Custom Animation to some of the Text and also inserted the sound clips and music clips where I needed them. Version 2002 is suppose to open and be able to use older version programs. It is also suppose to allow the use of different master templates in the same program. The first title slide is a slide that is using a 1997 Template that I brought into the 2002 program by downloading it from an old disk, deleting all of the old presentation except the title slide and then saving it to templates and using it to start the new presentatiion. There is a new Photo and a new music (.mid file) inserted on it. The remaining slides are build on a second Master Template Design taken from the 2002 program. This should not create a problem. I had no problem saving and re-opening this presentation until I added the custom animation, music clips and sound clips, including the music .mid file to the title slide. Can I please get some help on how I might be able to open and use my presentation, or if it is the title slide that is the problem, how I might delete this slide and save the rest of the work. ??? Thank You, Bowdrie. -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com =============================================== = Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com =============================================== = . |
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