2004 SP1 and Presenter Tools (New Bug?)

[Doug]

I was giving a presentation today (my first since installing SP1 on Office
2004) and, while trying to use the presenter tools, I realized that
PowerPoint was messing up the display to the projector. It was showing half
of one slide and then half of the next slide (or previous slide - I can't
remember). Anyway, it looked like an film projector that was misaligned,
where each frame was beginning halfway down the screen! I was able to get it
to work by mirroring my displays and not using the presenter tools, so the
presentation went without a hitch.

Later, I tested this again on my home monitor and the same thing happened.
Then I set the external monitor to 800x600 and it worked the way it should.
But with the external monitor at 1024x768, I again got this weird
half-screen effect.

Any idea what is going on here? I swear I used this with no problems before
SP1, and I think the projector was set at 1024. Is there a setting that got
messed up that I could change (I couldn't find anything)? Did this always
work this way? Or is this a new problem?

Thanks.

Doug

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I was giving a presentation today (my first since installing SP1 on Office
2004) and, while trying to use the presenter tools, I realized that
PowerPoint was messing up the display to the projector. It was showing half
of one slide and then half of the next slide (or previous slide - I can't
remember). Anyway, it looked like an film projector that was misaligned,
where each frame was beginning halfway down the screen! I was able to get it
to work by mirroring my displays and not using the presenter tools, so the
presentation went without a hitch.

Really weird... I just tried on my Mac (with a dual screen config, not a
video projector - but it should be the same) and I couldn't reproduce
what you describe. No problem with the presenter view here :-( It could
be affecting PPT only at certain resolutions though :-\

Corentin

 

[Doug]

Really weird... I just tried on my Mac (with a dual screen config, not a
video projector - but it should be the same) and I couldn't reproduce
what you describe. No problem with the presenter view here :-( It could
be affecting PPT only at certain resolutions though :-\

Corentin

Corentin,

I was running my 'book at 1024x768 and the external monitor/projector at
1024x768 when the problem occurred. When I ran the 'book at 1024x768 and the
monitor/projector at 800x600, everything worked OK. Can you try these
resolutions? Thanks.

Doug

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Corentin,

Hi Doug,

I was running my 'book at 1024x768 and the external monitor/projector at
1024x768 when the problem occurred. When I ran the 'book at 1024x768 and the
monitor/projector at 800x600, everything worked OK. Can you try these
resolutions? Thanks.

I just tried and had no problem :-\ It could be a corrupted pref or cache
file somewhere playing tricks on you :-(

Corentin

 

[Doug]

I just tried and had no problem :-\ It could be a corrupted pref or cache
file somewhere playing tricks on you :-(

Corentin,

Thanks for checking that. I've tried it on yet another monitor and I still
get the same problem. It only happens when the 2nd monitor is set to
1024x768. 800x600 works fine, and even higher resolutions work (e.g.,
1280x1024). For what it's worth, I've submitted feedback to MS. Thanks
again.

Doug

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Corentin,

Thanks for checking that. I've tried it on yet another monitor and I still
get the same problem. It only happens when the 2nd monitor is set to
1024x768. 800x600 works fine, and even higher resolutions work (e.g.,
1280x1024). For what it's worth, I've submitted feedback to MS. Thanks
again.

Really weird... woudl try deeleting System and User cache with an
application like Cocktail or TinkerTool System - as well as the PPT prefs.


I really don't see why you would see that adn I wouldn't (using the same
resolutions).

Corentin

 

[Dan Leih]

I am having this same issue. I am using 2004 w/SP1 on a Ti-book with
OS10.2.8. When I go into slide-show mode the screen is "wrapped" around with
the bottom 30% displaying on the top part of the screen and the rest of the
screen pushed down. Any solutions for this? I need slide show mode for
work...

Thanks, Dan