PowerPoint 2007 Very Slow

[J Square]

I have Ofc 7 on my Dell at home. The PC has 2GB of RAM and is a core duo,
but I don't know the speed. It's relatively fast. The PC is running Vista.
PowerPoint is very slow with a file that I have used to track our performance
for years by month. It worked very well in prior versions of PPT, but is very
slow with PPT 07. When I open the ppt file to add another data point, it
requires me to confirm that I don't want to convert it to pptx. Otherwise, it
works okay. Just this extra step. When I convert the file to pptx and follow
the same process, it is unbelievably slow. I click twice on the slide, then
can open the Excel datasheet. This is where it seems to bog down. On the
first of six slides in the file, it opens the datasheet okay, placing the
graph to the left and the datasheet to the right. I enter the new data and
close the datasheet. When I open the second or third slide and try to get to
the datasheet, my PC just sits there for minutes. Folks, I have nothing else
open. Why is PPT 07 so slow?

Okay, you're all going to say it's my PC or something, so what if I told you
I have identical issues with PPT 07 on my XP machine at my office?

At this point, I am very disappointed with Ofc 07 and wonder if anyone has a
fix for this or if it's a Microsoft built-in problem we have to live with.

Thanks for listening.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

You need to post in a Powerpoint newsgroup...you're way off...this is for
FrontPage.
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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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:I have Ofc 7 on my Dell at home. The PC has 2GB of RAM and is a core duo,
: but I don't know the speed. It's relatively fast. The PC is running Vista.
: PowerPoint is very slow with a file that I have used to track our
performance
: for years by month. It worked very well in prior versions of PPT, but is
very
: slow with PPT 07. When I open the ppt file to add another data point, it
: requires me to confirm that I don't want to convert it to pptx. Otherwise,
it
: works okay. Just this extra step. When I convert the file to pptx and
follow
: the same process, it is unbelievably slow. I click twice on the slide,
then
: can open the Excel datasheet. This is where it seems to bog down. On the
: first of six slides in the file, it opens the datasheet okay, placing the
: graph to the left and the datasheet to the right. I enter the new data and
: close the datasheet. When I open the second or third slide and try to get
to
: the datasheet, my PC just sits there for minutes. Folks, I have nothing
else
: open. Why is PPT 07 so slow?
:
: Okay, you're all going to say it's my PC or something, so what if I told
you
: I have identical issues with PPT 07 on my XP machine at my office?
:
: At this point, I am very disappointed with Ofc 07 and wonder if anyone has
a
: fix for this or if it's a Microsoft built-in problem we have to live with.
:
: Thanks for listening.

 

[J Square]

Sorry, Tom, I thought I did. While I haven't used these groups before, I
clicked on Office . . . and that's how I got to this group. I'll retrace my
steps. Thanks for letting me know. I would have wondered why I never got an
answer.