One slide takes forever to load when editing

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Having an issue when editing slides with many objects on the slide. We have
one slide that has an overlay map of Iraq on it. On the overlay, there are
many detailed objects and information throughout the slide that highlight
information of what's going on in those specific areas, little icons all over
the slide, and arrows, everything. Basically, it's a very "busy" slide.

Anyway, when a user go's to edit this slide, or is viewing the slide show
presentation in edit mode, they come upon this slide in the lineup, and it
seems like it's loading and reloading, and realoading, and reloading
constantly for about 5 minutes. This happens on anyone's computer. During the
actual presentation (slide show), it doesn't do that, only when you're
editing slides.

Does anyone know a fix for this, or has anyone had this issue before? Your
support is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
For each object on the slide, imagine a new layer. Most of the layer is
transparent (kind of like those old transparency anatomy pages in the hard
copy encyclopedias) with only some parts containing pictures. The
presentation will add these layers on, one at a time to build the whole
image. So any given point on a 'very busy' slide may have a few hundred
layers that have to be computed. This is usually not a problem (when there
are only a couple), but if you have hundreds of layers and some of them have
many layers of transparency , it can cause PowerPoint and the video card to
hic-cup a lot.

Try turning the video acceleration down on the computer and see if this
doesn't help. It may be able to display the slide much faster without the
additional redraw commands from various video components.
**How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm

I do not know how dynamic or static the slide in question is, but you also
might want to consider taking a screen capture of the slide and spreading
the dynamic portions over several linked slides (each handling just a few
dozen layers).

Post back if this does not improve the situation.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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We have started to do that as of yesterday. We took the primary portion of
the slide, did a screen capture, imaged it, made it a .jpg and put that
there. The dynamic portions are the only parts updated now, but the majority
of the map is static. This helped a bunch. Thanks for your input! Always
appreciate the support.
--
CW2 Patrick M. Quenga
IT Officer
United States Army


Bill Dilworth said:
For each object on the slide, imagine a new layer. Most of the layer is
transparent (kind of like those old transparency anatomy pages in the hard
copy encyclopedias) with only some parts containing pictures. The
presentation will add these layers on, one at a time to build the whole
image. So any given point on a 'very busy' slide may have a few hundred
layers that have to be computed. This is usually not a problem (when there
are only a couple), but if you have hundreds of layers and some of them have
many layers of transparency , it can cause PowerPoint and the video card to
hic-cup a lot.

Try turning the video acceleration down on the computer and see if this
doesn't help. It may be able to display the slide much faster without the
additional redraw commands from various video components.
**How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm

I do not know how dynamic or static the slide in question is, but you also
might want to consider taking a screen capture of the slide and spreading
the dynamic portions over several linked slides (each handling just a few
dozen layers).

Post back if this does not improve the situation.


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
yahoo2@ Please read the PowerPoint
yahoo. FAQ pages. They answer most
com of our questions.
www.pptfaq.com
..
..
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Another way around this might be to group the bulk of the pieces. Select
them and choose Draw/Group.

That way you can still get to the pieces to edit them if necessary.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


Patrick said:
We have started to do that as of yesterday. We took the primary portion of
the slide, did a screen capture, imaged it, made it a .jpg and put that
there. The dynamic portions are the only parts updated now, but the majority
of the map is static. This helped a bunch. Thanks for your input! Always
appreciate the support.
Click to expand...
 
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