I cannot see the pictures that I have imported into powerpoint. They appear
if I choose SLIDESHOW and view the show but I cannot see them in the slide
view where I want to crop/edit them. Even older files where I could see them
before are no longer viewable. The text is not affected. I tried changing
the resolution of my laptop i.e 1920X1200 to 800X600, colors from "true" to
"high" , even reinstalled Office XP but that did not help. I was able to see
the pictures a few months ago but it stopped one day when I was making a
presentation with high resolution photos. My laptop has 3.2GHZ prcessor with
1 GB RAM so I don't think that is a problem. Can someone please help???

My initial thought would be a graphics card problem. What graphics card is
in your laptop - does it use dedicated VRAM - and how much ram? If the card
is "up to specs" as I expect it should be, how big is the presentation - are
the imported images extremely large? Lastly, check the manufactures website
to assure you have the latest video drivers (especially if you have recently
installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP).

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
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"amitvoradds" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I cannot see the pictures that I have imported into powerpoint. They appear
> if I choose SLIDESHOW and view the show but I cannot see them in the slide
> view where I want to crop/edit them. Even older files where I could see
> them
> before are no longer viewable. The text is not affected. I tried changing
> the resolution of my laptop i.e 1920X1200 to 800X600, colors from "true"
> to
> "high" , even reinstalled Office XP but that did not help. I was able to
> see
> the pictures a few months ago but it stopped one day when I was making a
> presentation with high resolution photos. My laptop has 3.2GHZ prcessor
> with
> 1 GB RAM so I don't think that is a problem. Can someone please help???

Did you upgrade to PowerPoint 2003 recently? And not install Service Pack 1?
If so, download and install SP1 and everything should be OK.

Kind regards,
Ute