PPT not responding

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I have Microsoft office 2003 Student and Teacher edition. When I try to open
PPT to create a new presentation I am not able to click on anything. I have
the hour glass for a curser and when I do click on the screen it says that
the program is not responding. The other portions of the office are working
fine. What can I do?
 
D M Armstrong said:
I have Microsoft office 2003 Student and Teacher edition. When I try to open
PPT to create a new presentation I am not able to click on anything. I have
the hour glass for a curser and when I do click on the screen it says that
the program is not responding. The other portions of the office are working
fine. What can I do?
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First, let it sit for a while, say 10 minutes. Does it eventually snap out of
its coma?

Are you using a PC that's sometimes on, sometimes off a network or have you
recently opened files from removable media (CD, floppy, zip, jaz, dvd, USB
drive, yada, dada, etceterata)?
 
I just tried to see if it would work and it is still not responding. I leave
my computer on all the time, but it is a personal computer and i only use the
internet and take classes on-line. I will turn it off for the night and try
again tomorrow. The powerpoint should work with the student teacher edition
though right? I should be able to create as well and view?!
Thanx for the help and will let you know how it goes tomorrow!
 
I left my computer turned off all night long and when I got everything
running this morning PPT was working fine. I should have tried that first.
I just get so impatient sometimes. Thank you for your help!!!
 
D M Armstrong said:
I just tried to see if it would work and it is still not responding. I leave
my computer on all the time, but it is a personal computer and i only use the
internet and take classes on-line. I will turn it off for the night and try
again tomorrow. The powerpoint should work with the student teacher edition
though right? I should be able to create as well and view?!
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Yes, you should. The only two circumstances that'd keep you from creating and
saving work that I know of are:

1 - Opening a presentation that's read-only (because it contains certain embedded
fonts that you don't have on your PC or because it's been password protected).

2 - Using a copy of PPT/Office that's been installed but never "validated" and now
it's past the 30 or 45 or however many uses you get before it poops out.

In either case, though, you'd have seen warning messages of various sorts.

Give it a try after the computer's been turned off and restarted; if that doesn't
help, check the PPT FAQ for troubleshooting suggestions.

General troubleshooting procedures
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00035.htm

Make sure you have a printer driver installed and set as default:

How to install a local printer driver
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00605.htm

And a favorite, if unlikely-seeming thing to try:

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm
 
D M Armstrong said:
I left my computer turned off all night long and when I got everything
running this morning PPT was working fine. I should have tried that first.
I just get so impatient sometimes. Thank you for your help!!!
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Great! I love these inexpensive fixes.
 
For future reference, you don't have to wait all night. Just do a system
Restart. Sometimes gremlins get inside the box. Restarting the machine kills
the gremlins.
 
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