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Adam W
Hi, I'm a very experienced power point user who is totally stumped. I'm
using powerpoint 2003 (11.6361.6408) SP1. I make some very image
intensive powerpoints, usually exported from Photoshop 7.0 (PNGs, JPGs,
TIFFs) or Illustrator CS (EMFs). I usually use a great deal of
animation effects as well. I sporadically am running into a problem
where the entire screen will flicker, or redraw at a rate of not much
faster than once per second for several seconds to minutes on end. I
can remedy the problem by clicking on the top bar of the powerpoint
window and dragging the window, or by minimzing the window, but it
sometimes returns as soon as I click on an object to work with it.
The flickering isn't confined to the powerpoint window, but encompasses
the entire screen. The problem varies in magnitude from file to file,
but some files are nearly uneditable without getting into this cyclical
redraw. I have been in contact with other users who have this problem,
but also many veteran users who have never seen it including a guy in my
office using the same exact hardware and software. I'm running win xp
sp2 on a Dell Latitude 800 and have seen it on two other generic desktop
PCs of different brands, a Toshiba Satellite, as well as on a brand new
IBM laptop.
My only theory is that it is related to using shadows with exported
images, as the files that behave the worst seem to involve heavy use of
shadows beneath images. It's been difficult to isolate the problem
because it seems to happen with large files containing a variety of
image types, usually files built from a lot of cutting and pasting of
multiple generations of presentations.
I was pretty sure that this was a hardware problem of some sort, perhaps
confined largely to Dell laptops, until I recently passed a file to
someone who had never had this problem and he reported to me that the
file I gave him (one that had been giving me trouble in this regard)
behaved in the same problematic fashion on his brand new IBM laptop.
I have searched newsgroups, Microsoft's website, and asked a number of
colleagues, no one seems to have ever seen this before, though I run
into fairly regularly. If anyone has any ideas or has at least seen
this phenomenon, please let me know.
Thank you very much.
--adam
using powerpoint 2003 (11.6361.6408) SP1. I make some very image
intensive powerpoints, usually exported from Photoshop 7.0 (PNGs, JPGs,
TIFFs) or Illustrator CS (EMFs). I usually use a great deal of
animation effects as well. I sporadically am running into a problem
where the entire screen will flicker, or redraw at a rate of not much
faster than once per second for several seconds to minutes on end. I
can remedy the problem by clicking on the top bar of the powerpoint
window and dragging the window, or by minimzing the window, but it
sometimes returns as soon as I click on an object to work with it.
The flickering isn't confined to the powerpoint window, but encompasses
the entire screen. The problem varies in magnitude from file to file,
but some files are nearly uneditable without getting into this cyclical
redraw. I have been in contact with other users who have this problem,
but also many veteran users who have never seen it including a guy in my
office using the same exact hardware and software. I'm running win xp
sp2 on a Dell Latitude 800 and have seen it on two other generic desktop
PCs of different brands, a Toshiba Satellite, as well as on a brand new
IBM laptop.
My only theory is that it is related to using shadows with exported
images, as the files that behave the worst seem to involve heavy use of
shadows beneath images. It's been difficult to isolate the problem
because it seems to happen with large files containing a variety of
image types, usually files built from a lot of cutting and pasting of
multiple generations of presentations.
I was pretty sure that this was a hardware problem of some sort, perhaps
confined largely to Dell laptops, until I recently passed a file to
someone who had never had this problem and he reported to me that the
file I gave him (one that had been giving me trouble in this regard)
behaved in the same problematic fashion on his brand new IBM laptop.
I have searched newsgroups, Microsoft's website, and asked a number of
colleagues, no one seems to have ever seen this before, though I run
into fairly regularly. If anyone has any ideas or has at least seen
this phenomenon, please let me know.
Thank you very much.
--adam