Power Point

[jjbencke]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have been working on PP using pictures to make a slide show. Each slide has multiple pics, but I have resized each picture to a smaller size. I am now up to slide 24 with about 200 pics total. But now it has locked up on me. I can sometimes open PP, and then try the file and then it will just keep spinning and eventually force quit. Other times I can't even open PP before I have to force quit.
What is going on?
I'm on a MacBook Pro, with 200 GB harddrive and 2 GB RAM. I'm running OS 10.5.7 and Office2008 12.2.
Hopefully someone has the answer.

 

[CyberTaz]

You've actually mentioned more than one issue here, so let's take them one
at a time. Here are a few thoughts;

If you occasionally have trouble launching the program that needs to be
addressed first - I assume you mean launching directly from the Dock or from
the Applications folder rather than double-clicking the file in question. If
that's the case, run Disk Utility - Repair Disk Permissions as well as its
Verify Disk routine to make sure all is well there. Also, try running PPT
from a different user account to see if you have the same problem. If you
don't, it suggests a problem with your current user account & the simplest
remedy is to move your user files to the new account... Troubleshooting &
correcting corrupt user accounts can be a lengthy & fruitless endeavor.

As for the problem file:

If you mean "resized" as in scaling them down to fit on the slides that does
nothing to reduce the actual file size of the images -- a 2.5MB JPG is a
2.5MB JPG regardless of whether you scale it to print at 8x10 or 1x2.5, so
the issue still may be the actual image file size. If they're directly from
a digital camera & simply stuck into the presentation it may well be the
source of the problem. It's best to process the images for the appropriate
resolution (ppi) & print dimensions (Height & Width) before inserting into
any type of file.

It's also possible that there is one [or more] corrupt elements within the
file. Not knowing more about the content, how it got there & what's been
done with it since it's hard to say for sure. If the file can't be opened,
though, there isn't much you can do. If you have access to a PC running
Office 2007 you may have better luck opening & repairing the file. That
version has some capabilities that haven't made it to the Mac version.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac