AutoShapes Will Not Print

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Using PowerPoint 2003, Windows XP SP1, and Office SP1, a presentation that
was created in PowerPoint 2000 (12 slides)and printed fine, will not print.
There is one slide of the 12 that has a series of AutoShapes (squares using
fill effects with two colors; when this slide is deleted, the presentation
will print. Any thoughts

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Diamonds Mine said:
Using PowerPoint 2003, Windows XP SP1, and Office SP1, a presentation that
was created in PowerPoint 2000 (12 slides)and printed fine, will not print.
There is one slide of the 12 that has a series of AutoShapes (squares using
fill effects with two colors; when this slide is deleted, the presentation
will print. Any thoughts
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In some cases it helps to select everything, copy it, then paste it to a new
blank slide; delete the original slide and then see if the new one will print.
 
Thank you Steve. I did that and it still will not print. I did, however,
copy and past all the objects in Word and then pasted back into PowerPoint.
But now it's one object instead of mutliple objects that can be edited. That
worked in the interim, but I'd like to know how to fix it in PowerPoint so
that all objects can remain intact, editable and print.
 
Thank you Steve. I did that and it still will not print. I did, however,
copy and past all the objects in Word and then pasted back into PowerPoint.
But now it's one object instead of mutliple objects that can be edited. That
worked in the interim, but I'd like to know how to fix it in PowerPoint so
that all objects can remain intact, editable and print.
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Try narrowing the problem down. Create a copy of the presentation, delete all
slides but this one; make another copy of that presentation. Divide and conquer:
delete half the objects on the slide then see if it'll print. If yes, get another
copy of the presentation and delete the other half of the objects. Keep divvying
it up until you've narrowed it down to the problem shape.

By the way, what sort of printer/driver and what exact printing problem do you get?
Error messages or the print output just stalls or ...?

Another thing to try is roundtripping: save the presentation to HTML then open
that back up in PPT. Sometimes it's a genuine miracle cure.
 
Thank you Steve; saving the presentation in HTML format and re-opening in
PowerPoint worked. Also, copying each object to a new slide worked, but I
like your solution better. Thank you -- Carolyn
 
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