My First Red X

[Rick Altman]

All of this talk about the dreaded Red X...and I finally get to experience
it. I thought I would add my experiences to the mix in the hopes of solving
the mystery...

I created a 20MB presentation file with many digital photos for last year's
PowerPoint Live. I delivered the presentation on my notebook and then
archived it on my desktop PC. I opened the archived version yesterday, and
2/3 of the photos are Red-X'd. I then tried the following experiments:

- I checked all of the conventional fixes -- Fast Save off, Undo levels
down, no CMYK images, etc.

- I then opened, from across our LAN, the exact same .ppt file on my
notebook. No Red Xs at all.

- From my notebook, I then saved a smaller file, with just one slide, a
slide that contains two photos that were Red-X'd on the desktop.

- I then opened that new file from my desktop PC. The photos are still
Red-X'd.

- From the notebook, I then copied and pasted the images into a new file.

- I opened that new file on the desktop, photos still Red-X'd.

This tells me that the condition, in my case at least, is completely
system-specific. I'm no closer to helping us determine what the condition
is, but it only shows up on my desktop, and only on this one particular
file. More details as they come in...



Rick A.
PPTLive

 

[Brian Reilly, MS MVP]

Rick,
Are you sure you didn't open this up in Corel? (rofl)

Have you tried a test of a new pressie created on the "badly behaving"
machine with some of those puppies and moving it back and forth (saves
involved) across machines to see if that replicates?

If nothing else, let your speakers at PPT Live create your pressies,
we don't get no stinkin' Red X's any more.

ps also check and post the versions and updates you are running on
both machines.

And just to pre-empt my dear friend Echo, check the damn video drivers
dude!

Good to hear from you again. See you in San Diego at the next PPT Live
conference. But leave your Red X's at home.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
PowerPoint Live Speaker

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

One other thing to check: Does changing the hardware acceleration change
things on the non-working machine? (It shouldn't, but since I have seen HA
fix this, you never know.)

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[Rich Weil]

Hi Rick,

I believe I said in a much, much, earlier post about this issue that all it
would take to fix this thing is for it to happen to Bill Gates, just once,
in a large press conference, and 20 minutes later a dozen Microsoft
programmers would be on the case until they figured it out. Sorry it
happened to you.