What happens when you run the same presentation on another system or in Safe
mode on the ThinkPad? When did you last update your video driver?
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"Michael Moser" <michael-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a presentation that I am working on and more and more often my
> system falls into a mode, where text-boxes and lines, arrows and
> connectors in the slides simply "disappear", i.e. are not displayed
> any more. Only the descriptions (i.e. the text inside the text-boxes)
> remains. I get the impression this might be some graphics driver
> problem, but it seems to be triggered by (or at least manifests in)
> PowerPoint only, that why I post here.
>
> Restarting PowerPoint does not help. So far I found no other
> workaround than to reboot my system after which the presentation is
> displayed OK again and I can continue working on it.
>
> This on an IBM ThinkPad 31p (ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800 based graphic
> system) running under Windows 2000 (SP4), PowerPoint's version is 2002
> (SP2).
>
> Has anybody made similar experiences and/or knows what could cause
> this and/or some workaround?
>
> Michael
>
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