PP X: Inserted Images Distorted

[Jeff Vandehey]

Hello, I'm dealing with a problem in Office X, PP SP1. I have a presentation
with about 30 slides, with almost all of them containing inserted images. I
didn't create the images, so I can't speak for their format. To my best
knowledge, they are RGB jpegs.

Ok, when I open the presentation and look at it in slide sorter view, the
thumbnails display the distortion on about 1/ 2 of my slides. The distortion
is different on many of my slides, but is basically horizontal lines,
strange shifts, etc. To make it more odd, When I change from 66% on slide
sorter view to 50%, the distortion appears on different slides.

It's hard to explain, so I took screen shots and posted them online.

My view at 50%
http://homepage.mac.com/vandehey/50_percent.png

My view at 66%
http://homepage.mac.com/vandehey/66_percent.png

Slide 13 on Slide mode
http://homepage.mac.com/vandehey/Slide13_SlideView.png

This presentation appears like this on another computer as well with Office
X. Sometimes if I quit and re-launch, the presentation appears normal. I
have tried a 'save as' from the normal appearance, and it will later open up
distorted. I know it's strange, any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

This could be a hardware "issue." What is your computer (model,
processor speed, RAM, video card, video RAM) and display configuration ?

-Jim

 

[Jeff Vandehey]

Thanks for the response. I have actually duplicated this on two different
computers. A new-ish 15" aluminum PowerBook and my Quicksilver desktop
machine. Both have over 1GB RAM.

-Jeff

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Did you update Office v.X with the latest updates?

Additional picture enhancements were made and included in PowerPoint 2004.
Have you tried 2004? There's a free trial available.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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