Odd behavior w/ poster-size slide

[Keith Jones]

I am working on a poster for an upcoming scientific conference and I am
creating one big PPT slide to send over to the printer (which we have been
doing for years).

PPT X, however has started to act funny with this file. Specifically, I can't see
anything in Slide View, but I can see everything in Slide Sorter View and as a
slide show at full screen.

When I try to access the slide in Slide View, the sliders on the window are
initially placed about halfway down, but when I move them over, nothing
appears. Sometimes the sliders even disappear after I move them, as if the
desired slide fits in the window, so sliders aren't necessary.

I thought maybe it was something unique to my Mac, so I tried a PC in my
lab (I think it is running Office 2000) and it did the same thing.

Any ideas about how to fix this. I would hate to have to start all over on this
poster.

Keith

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am working on a poster for an upcoming scientific conference and I am
creating one big PPT slide to send over to the printer (which we have been
doing for years).

PPT X, however has started to act funny with this file. Specifically, I can't see
anything in Slide View, but I can see everything in Slide Sorter View and as a
slide show at full screen.

When I try to access the slide in Slide View, the sliders on the window are
initially placed about halfway down, but when I move them over, nothing
appears. Sometimes the sliders even disappear after I move them, as if the
desired slide fits in the window, so sliders aren't necessary.

I thought maybe it was something unique to my Mac, so I tried a PC in my
lab (I think it is running Office 2000) and it did the same thing.

Check View, B/W - see if you've accidentally dropped into b/w view for some reason.
If so, switch back to regular view and see if that helps.

If no joy, save off a couple copies of the file to a different drive or folder as a
precaution.

Open one of the copies, go to slide view, do Edit, Select All then Edit, Copy.
Open a new presentation, blank slide, then do Edit, Paste Special and try the
different options. See if anything useful appears.

Go back to the original and do Edit, Select All again to make sure everything's
selected. Apply an outline and/or fill color. Any changes?


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[Keith Jones]

I was able to slide view/select all/copy/paste something into a new file. The
problem is that it transfers it to a new file as an image, rather than as
individual elements.

I tried also, just copying the slide in the old file (from slide sorter view) and
pasting that (in slide sorter view) into a new file, but that buggered up
everything, which is odd b/c I do that kind of stuff all the time without a
problem.

Any other advice? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----

Check View, B/W - see if you've accidentally dropped into b/w view for some reason.
If so, switch back to regular view and see if that helps.

If no joy, save off a couple copies of the file to a different drive or folder as

a

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I was able to slide view/select all/copy/paste something into a new file. The
problem is that it transfers it to a new file as an image, rather than as
individual elements.

You'd need to do the Select All in Slide view and do the Paste in Slide View as well.

But try ungrouping the image you pasted in. That might do it as well.

I tried also, just copying the slide in the old file (from slide sorter view) and
pasting that (in slide sorter view) into a new file, but that buggered up
everything, which is odd b/c I do that kind of stuff all the time without a
problem.

Any other advice? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----

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[Guest]

Thanks for your help, but its still a no go.

I did figure out though that, when in slide view, there is one tiny little
element that highlights when you do "select all". My guess is that my slide
(there is only one in the file) is this minature element, but I can't figure out
how to make it bigger.

Keith.

-----Original Message-----

I was able to slide view/select all/copy/paste something into a new file. The
problem is that it transfers it to a new file as an image, rather than as
individual elements.

You'd need to do the Select All in Slide view and do the Paste in Slide View as well.

But try ungrouping the image you pasted in. That might do it as well.

I tried also, just copying the slide in the old file (from slide sorter view) and
pasting that (in slide sorter view) into a new file, but that buggered up
everything, which is odd b/c I do that kind of stuff all the time without a
problem.

Any other advice? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for your help, but its still a no go.

I did figure out though that, when in slide view, there is one tiny little
element that highlights when you do "select all". My guess is that my slide
(there is only one in the file) is this minature element, but I can't figure out
how to make it bigger.

Try: Select it, choose Format (whatever the menu calls the object) and use the Size
tab.

Keith.

-----Original Message-----

I was able to slide view/select all/copy/paste something into a new file. The
problem is that it transfers it to a new file as an image, rather than as
individual elements.

You'd need to do the Select All in Slide view and do the Paste in Slide View as well.

But try ungrouping the image you pasted in. That might do it as well.

I tried also, just copying the slide in the old file (from slide sorter view) and
pasting that (in slide sorter view) into a new file, but that buggered up
everything, which is odd b/c I do that kind of stuff all the time without a
problem.

Any other advice? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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