PPT2007 slow in outline view

[Guest]

Hello

I've noticed lately when I use a typical file for surtitles, things are a
little slow when navigating around the outline pane when in normal view. It
takes a few seconds to display the slide selected, and to scroll up and down
the outline. As the file size gets bigge, the more it seems to slow down.
When looking at slides instead, it is almost instantaneous. Before I go
blaming PPT, i suspect it is more related to my hardware. It is an IBM
notebook, 2 Gig P 4, but with only a 16M video system.

Is this typical? I'm in the process of looking for a much more modern
computer, and hope that this would not be an issue then. I remember back in
the days of PPT3 on a '386, that displays of pages that were more text
oriented took longer than pages that were of a more grapgical nature.

Thanks,

Villem Teder

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello

I've noticed lately when I use a typical file for surtitles, things are a
little slow when navigating around the outline pane when in normal view. It
takes a few seconds to display the slide selected, and to scroll up and down
the outline. As the file size gets bigge, the more it seems to slow down.
When looking at slides instead, it is almost instantaneous. Before I go
blaming PPT, i suspect it is more related to my hardware. It is an IBM
notebook, 2 Gig P 4, but with only a 16M video system.

Hi Villem. I suspect it may be the video system or, assuming the 2 gig refers
to processor speed, RAM.

I don't see this using PPT 2003 with fairly graphics-heavy and/or text heavy
presentations on either a sub 2ghz P4 desktop or on a recent Thinkpad R60.

Both have 2gb of memory, both have more video memory. Do you know someone
whose newer-spec PC you can try your presentation on?