powerpoint 2007 is slow

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Beefamato

Everything in PowerPoint 2007 is slow. I'm running it in Vista with a 3Ghz
processor and 2GB of RAM. It will take more than 5 seconds to start a
presentation. Things really slow to a crawl when I want to choose a new
animation. And selecting slide transitions is a disaster. After googling
"powerpoint 2007 slow" I see that this seems to be a fairly big problem.

Is there anything I can do? Is Microsoft aware of this?
 
K

Kathy Jacobs

Make sure you are not running one of the Beta version. The released version
is much faster than the betas were.

FYI: If you have OneNote, you have one of the certified drivers already.
Just make sure
Send to OneNote 2007 is set as your default printer.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

Echo S said:
This will sound weird, but install a certified printer driver from
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/category.aspx?bcatid=1044&tabid=1 and
set it as the default driver. If you're on a network, make sure to install
these as local printer drivers (on the computer, not on the network).

This often corrects the very slow editing issues.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Beefamato said:
Everything in PowerPoint 2007 is slow. I'm running it in Vista with a
3Ghz
processor and 2GB of RAM. It will take more than 5 seconds to start a
presentation. Things really slow to a crawl when I want to choose a new
animation. And selecting slide transitions is a disaster. After googling
"powerpoint 2007 slow" I see that this seems to be a fairly big problem.

Is there anything I can do? Is Microsoft aware of this?
 
B

Beefamato

Well, I'm mainly an idiot. I didn't have the drivers installed for my video
card. So, I don't think Microsoft needs to be alerted to my problem. Thanks
for your consideration and suggestions!

Kathy Jacobs said:
Make sure you are not running one of the Beta version. The released version
is much faster than the betas were.

FYI: If you have OneNote, you have one of the certified drivers already.
Just make sure
Send to OneNote 2007 is set as your default printer.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

Echo S said:
This will sound weird, but install a certified printer driver from
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/category.aspx?bcatid=1044&tabid=1 and
set it as the default driver. If you're on a network, make sure to install
these as local printer drivers (on the computer, not on the network).

This often corrects the very slow editing issues.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Beefamato said:
Everything in PowerPoint 2007 is slow. I'm running it in Vista with a
3Ghz
processor and 2GB of RAM. It will take more than 5 seconds to start a
presentation. Things really slow to a crawl when I want to choose a new
animation. And selecting slide transitions is a disaster. After googling
"powerpoint 2007 slow" I see that this seems to be a fairly big problem.

Is there anything I can do? Is Microsoft aware of this?
 
E

Echo S

Glad to hear you got it working properly. Thanks for letting us know.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Beefamato said:
Well, I'm mainly an idiot. I didn't have the drivers installed for my
video
card. So, I don't think Microsoft needs to be alerted to my problem.
Thanks
for your consideration and suggestions!

Kathy Jacobs said:
Make sure you are not running one of the Beta version. The released
version
is much faster than the betas were.

FYI: If you have OneNote, you have one of the certified drivers already.
Just make sure
Send to OneNote 2007 is set as your default printer.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we
lived

Echo S said:
This will sound weird, but install a certified printer driver from
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/category.aspx?bcatid=1044&tabid=1 and
set it as the default driver. If you're on a network, make sure to
install
these as local printer drivers (on the computer, not on the network).

This often corrects the very slow editing issues.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/

Everything in PowerPoint 2007 is slow. I'm running it in Vista with a
3Ghz
processor and 2GB of RAM. It will take more than 5 seconds to start a
presentation. Things really slow to a crawl when I want to choose a
new
animation. And selecting slide transitions is a disaster. After
googling
"powerpoint 2007 slow" I see that this seems to be a fairly big
problem.

Is there anything I can do? Is Microsoft aware of this?
 

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