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Terry Pinnell
I had some good help on this elsewhere a few weeks ago, but never
really solved the problem. In brief, some of the images in certain PP
2000 files are visible on first loading the file, but then become
invisible if you change slides and return. I get identical results on
two separate Win XP Home PCs (mine and my wife's). The only practical
approach was to delete the errant images, re paste them from the
original source, and save under a new name. But there are *many* of
these old files displaying the same problem, so that approach
(virtually starting again) is hardly satisfactory.
I'm not optimistic of a solution, but I'd still like to satisfy my
curiosity as to *how* this can have happened.
The images in the file are typically grouped in pairs, and so far it
has always been just one of these two that has the 'invisibility'
trait. These culprits were all copy/pasted using the clipboard, from
an old version of Corel Print House, a year ago. Effectively, this was
my wife's way of getting Print House clip art into her PP
presentations (she's a teacher). Ungrouping the pair doesn't result in
any improvement. FWIW, looking at the properties of the culprit, under
the Size tab I see these checked:
- Lock aspect ratio
- Relative to original picture size
In contrast, the permanent images have this checked (but greyed):
- Best scale for slide show
My main questions are:
How can an image 'vanish' from the screen like this? Surely, it's
either present in the file, or it's not? If somehow a 'link' to the
Corel clip had been created, and that target was no longer available
(because the original was on CD for instance), why would it not be
invisible at once, instead of briefly making an appearance?
And if pasting today from Print House results in 'good' files (with
all pasted images being permanently visible), what can have happened
since the file's creation a year ago to render it corrupted in this
way?
really solved the problem. In brief, some of the images in certain PP
2000 files are visible on first loading the file, but then become
invisible if you change slides and return. I get identical results on
two separate Win XP Home PCs (mine and my wife's). The only practical
approach was to delete the errant images, re paste them from the
original source, and save under a new name. But there are *many* of
these old files displaying the same problem, so that approach
(virtually starting again) is hardly satisfactory.
I'm not optimistic of a solution, but I'd still like to satisfy my
curiosity as to *how* this can have happened.
The images in the file are typically grouped in pairs, and so far it
has always been just one of these two that has the 'invisibility'
trait. These culprits were all copy/pasted using the clipboard, from
an old version of Corel Print House, a year ago. Effectively, this was
my wife's way of getting Print House clip art into her PP
presentations (she's a teacher). Ungrouping the pair doesn't result in
any improvement. FWIW, looking at the properties of the culprit, under
the Size tab I see these checked:
- Lock aspect ratio
- Relative to original picture size
In contrast, the permanent images have this checked (but greyed):
- Best scale for slide show
My main questions are:
How can an image 'vanish' from the screen like this? Surely, it's
either present in the file, or it's not? If somehow a 'link' to the
Corel clip had been created, and that target was no longer available
(because the original was on CD for instance), why would it not be
invisible at once, instead of briefly making an appearance?
And if pasting today from Print House results in 'good' files (with
all pasted images being permanently visible), what can have happened
since the file's creation a year ago to render it corrupted in this
way?
