Presenter View Notes not advancing with slides

[Amanda Cannon]

I've been using presenter's view in PowerPoint for a long time without any
problems. But suddenly I'm getting quirky results with the presenter's
notes. Sometimes they work fine. Then for no obvious reason, the notes will
get stuck at a particular slide, while the presentation continues as normal.
Slides on the presenters view continue to be synchronized with the those
visable by the public.

It started with just a 1-2 slide lag, then back to notes appearing normally.
I thought it was just a slide that had no notes, so kept the prior note up.
But today I tried to give a presentation and after 5 slides the notes "stuck"
for the remainder of the presentation. There definitely are notes on the
remaining slides.

This was an existing presentation that worked correctly last time it was
used. No changes have been made to it since last usage. Some of the slides
use animation (nothing fancy - each bullet appearing as I am ready to talk
about it), others do not. If I copy/paste the slide to another spot, same
thing happens. If I create a new slide, then copy/paste images, text, and
notes to it, the notes work fine. That's obviously a workaround, but not a
good one as it means recreating many, many slides. And no idea which of my
presentations will develop the problem next.

Running PowerPoint 2003 under Windows XP SP2, all fully patched.

Any help about what is causing the problem, and/or how to correct it will be
greatly appreciated

Amanda

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Amanda

I haven't heard of that one before but a good starting point for corrupt
presentations is round tripping:
HTML "Round-tripping" to repair corruption
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

Give it a go and let us know how you get on.

Lucy

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Hi Amanda,

Has this presentation been opened in 2007 and saved, or has it only ever
been touched by 2003? I've run into problems with the notes before when
this was the situation, but not from Presenter's view.


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[Amanda Cannon]

Fascinating article. I'm definitely keeping it for troubleshooting in the
future. Unfortunately, it didn't solve this problem though. Interesting
sidebar - in the web veresion the notes appear correctly.
Thanks for the information.
I think at this point I'll give up and use the dual monitor function, as I
can see my notes that way.

 

[Amanda Cannon]

Thanks for the reply. No, it has never been opened in PP2007. It was
originally created in PP 2000 though.
At this point I have found that I can achieve what I need by runnin in dual
monitor mode, so guess that I will do that until I do move to PP 2007.
Understand Presenter's View is much better there.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Amanda

Oh the pptfaq is jam packed full of interesting articles

Just a thought but maybe have a play with this to see if it helps:
How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

And is it happening to all presentation or just one? If just one, try
creating a new presentation and using insert -> slides from file. Can't see
that it would work when round tripping didn't, but as it will only take a
few moments it could be worth a try...

Lucy