file growing to 12MB and very slow when saved

[Guest]

Hallo

We have some PC with PP 2003 and some with PP2000.

Some older PP Files have a strange reaction when I save them the grow (as an
example) from 335 KB to 12MB and the PC has 100% CPU after some minutes it is
over. I stopt "fast save" on the 2003 PP.

At the moment I have no Idee?

Some files are working some dont!

Strange thanks for your help

 

[Bill Foley]

Are you trying to save your presentations to a backward version? If so,
don't. You can do a simple "File", "Save" and it will still open in PPT
2000, but the animations might not work. If you want, you can disable the
new features of 2002 or 2003 by clicking "Tools", "Options", and on the
"Edit" TAB at the bottom, disable what you want. Of course, you will lose a
lot of the new animation capabilities, but at least you will get a
consistent look when going back to PPT 2000.

Hope that helps. If you aren't "backward saving", holler back and maybe
someone else might have another idea.

 

[Guest]

Hallo Bill

Thanks for the answer

I have a 2000 ppt and open it in PP2003 I change a letter and save it
(without fast saving) in to standard PP format. The file while grow from
335kb to 12MB (but still working)

This happends to some pp created in PP2000 but not to all files.

At the moment I see no sense behind, except some corrupted templates or
fonts or whatever...

Are there a possibility to repair PPT files?

 

[Bill Foley]

You can try a "File", "Save as" and give it a new name. If that doesn't
work, try opening a blank presentation with the same design as your original
and do a "Insert", "Slides from file...", browse to, select, and insert all
slides and save that new one.

Does either of those help? If not, try this link:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello Rene,

'> I have a 2000 ppt and open it in PP2003 I change a letter and save it

(without fast saving) in to standard PP format. The file while grow from
335kb to 12MB (but still working)

Check Tools, Options, the Save tab. Verify that "Save PowerPoint files as:" is
set to "PowerPoint Presentation" and not one of the other options.

Check Help, About Microsoft Office PowerPoint to make sure that you've got SP1
applied (the version will end in SP1 if you do). If not, use Help, Check For
Updates and apply all recommended updates.

Finally, is revision tracking turned on?

 

[Guest]

Hallo Bill

It is a problem with the FONTS

there are some funny fonts in this Presentation

SSo i removed the "embedded Font" switch in Tools/Option/Save

and its better

rene

 

[Bill Foley]

Excellent! Got to love that FAQ!