PowerPoint has gotten a tad obnoxious - pictures

[Guest]

Thanks for reading and providing any information you may have on this topic.
My apologies if the issue has been addressed but I did search for a short
while.

I'm running PPT 2000 w/latest service packs and updates

I have a PPT file that I created and as of now, all of my slides consist of
a generic background (just colored - nothing fancy), simple text and four to
five pictures on each slide. The pictures do not have borders on them but I
have cropped them to a uniform size.

All of the pictrues that I insert are inserted by clicking on Insert -
Picture - From File...

All of my pictures are in a folder, however under that folder I have another
folder labeled with the slide number. All of the pictures are filed
accordingly. The folder names have not changed nor have the names of the
images within them. One thing to note though, whether it's useful or not, my
pictures are not all one file type. Some are .jpg, .gif and .tif etc.

About five slides into my presentation I began to notice something very odd.
When I would go back a slide (or two, three - it's happening off and on and
really has no specific slide that changes all of the time. One or two of my
pictures have changed on the given slide. For example, slide three will have
one or two of its pictures changed to a picture from a previous slide. I
know for sure I didn't change the photos but all of sudden slide three
magically changes a few of its pictures to pictures that are on slide two or
one. One thing to note as well is that the pictures that change by
themselves always change to a picture on previous slides. I really hope this
makes sense and someone can tell me what I'm doing to cause this anomoly. My
PPT file is very basic like I mentioned earlier. The only thing that's
somewhat not-so-basic is that my very first slide has an embedded .wav in it.
I also have set a default font, font size and font color for each slide.
Anyway, let me know if you have any questions and I truly appreciate your
feedback and ideas.

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[Bill Dilworth]

To start with let me say, I do not know what is happening, but I would be
interested in checking it out.

It could be minor corruption within the file, it could be hardware related,
or a bunch of 'might be' other stuff. I'd like to see if it continues to
behave this way on a different system.

Is your presentation of a size it can be emailed? If so, could you send it
to me at the yahoo address in my signature (not the reply to address).


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[Austin Myers]

I suspect the pressie has become corrupted. I would open a new, blank
presentation and import the slides one at a time. That should clean it up.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Shawn,

This does happen sometimes. You're not losing your mind, PowerPoint is trying
to lose it for you. ;-)

I'd make a copy of the presentation and put it someplace safe. It's got
problems and might go bad on you.

I don't know why this happens but my theory goes along these lines:

Fact: When you copy and paste images within PPT and sometimes when you import
the same image repeatedly, PowerPoint stores links back to the first instance of
the image in the file rather than importing a full copy of the data again.

Fact: These can turn into whole chains of links if you insert an image, copy
it, copy the copy, copy the copy of the copy ... as would be perfectly natural.

Fact: PPT has to do some fancy footwork to reconnect everything correctly when
you delete one of these images or move a slide containing one. In effect,
you've removed a link in the chain, so it has to locate the previous link and
wire everything back together again.

Conjecture: I suspect that in a heavily edited presentation, the wiring gets so
tangled that PPT can't re-connect it at some point and finds the wrong image by
mistake.

Something to try:

Start a new presentation and add however many slides you have in your existing
presentation.

Copy and paste the pictures from your existing presentation into the new one.

Save. See if that cleans things up for you.