Copy - paste between 2 presentations

[Serge]

Hi,

I've have a problem with powerpoint 2002 under windows
XP :

I have 2 presentations (4.7 Mb and 9.5 Mb ) and when i
try to copy a slide ( with 2 pictures and an grid from
excel ) from a presentation ( the big one ) and paste in
the other one, the slide appears but powerpoint doesn't
respond anymore.
I also try to compress the image in the first slide
before coping but powerpoint freeze ( take 100% cpu and
memory utilisation don't stop to grow up )
What's the problem ?
Thanks for your help ..

 

[Echo S]

What do you have running in the background, Serge? See if disabling your
virus scan software allows you to copy/paste better.

That's the first thing to try. If it doesn't work, holler back and we'll
see what else we can come up with.

 

[Tom Monego]

In a related problem, we have a client who brought us 2 older presentation he
wanted to combine into 1. We can't do anything to the file, the fonts and
copying and pasting, any changes, nothing stuck. Save the file and view it, it
was exactly as before. The client was clueless, he took over the position from
someone else. So no history. Has there ever been, or is there a lock for a
PowerPoint presentation.


Tom

 

[Echo S]

In a related problem, we have a client who brought us 2 older presentation he
wanted to combine into 1. We can't do anything to the file, the fonts and
copying and pasting, any changes, nothing stuck. Save the file and view it, it
was exactly as before. The client was clueless, he took over the position from
someone else. So no history. Has there ever been, or is there a lock for a
PowerPoint presentation.

PPT 2002 (aka XP) has password modification, so that could be the issue
here, I suppose. You'd have to be using PPT 2002 to even be able to open
such a file, though, as previous versions of PPT will just throw you an
error message if you try to open a passworded presentation file with
them.

 

[Tom Monego]

PPT 2002 (aka XP) has password modification, so that could be the issue
here, I suppose. You'd have to be using PPT 2002 to even be able to open
such a file, though, as previous versions of PPT will just throw you an
error message if you try to open a passworded presentation file with
them.

The client doesn't seem to know about this, but we can open both
presentations, we just can't edit or combine them. Have tried on both a Mac
and a PC. Of course when we said any more work on our part was going on the
clock. The client took the presentations back and said he'd rework them. On
his last email he now has 4 not 2 presentation and still can't do anything
with the originals.


Tom

 

[Echo S]

The client doesn't seem to know about this, but we can open both
presentations, we just can't edit or combine them. Have tried on both a Mac
and a PC. Of course when we said any more work on our part was going on the
clock. The client took the presentations back and said he'd rework them. On
his last email he now has 4 not 2 presentation and still can't do anything
with the originals.

That's very strange, Tom.

I'd love to see a few sample slides. Can you email them to me (don't
post them here, please!) at (e-mail address removed) ? I can't check them until
this evening, but maybe I can at least figure out what's happening to
them.

If you know the version of PPT they're created in and which you're
working in, that would be helpful information to include as well.

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

Weird outside speculation:

My Win2000 lappie got whacked with that Blaster virus a few weeks back, may
its progenitor spend eternity in the deepest level of Hell. Starting now,
if at all possible.

One of the sympoms was that within a few minutes after reboot, it'd lose the
ability to copy/paste anything at all.

Another thing to check is whether it'd work to open a copy of Presentation
A, then do Insert, Slides, From File to bring in the slides from B

--

Steve Rindsberg PPT MVP
PPTLive ( http://www.pptlive.com ) Featured Speaker
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PPT FAQ: http://www.pptfaq.com

 

[Tom Monego]

Not as bad as it sounds, I took a look at the presentation, 53 slides must
have been made up of 15 templates, probably copied from other persentations,
all had their own master, so without changing the master, the presentation
wouldn't take any changes, still a little strange but not as bad as the other
graphic artist was saying.

Thanks for the help,
Tom

 

[Echo S]

Ahhhh, yeah, that makes much more sense.

Thanks for the followup information.

Echo

Not as bad as it sounds, I took a look at the presentation, 53 slides must
have been made up of 15 templates, probably copied from other
persentations,
all had their own master, so without changing the master, the presentation
wouldn't take any changes, still a little strange but not as bad as the
other
graphic artist was saying.

Thanks for the help,
Tom