slide layouts & designs not appearing

[Guest]

Just recently (in the past week or so), PowerPoint has suddenly stopped
showing the design templates or slide layouts in the right-hand side of the
screen. The box will appear if I select "Format, Slide Design" or "Format,
Slide Layout", but the box is completely blank. Scrolling over the various
templates and layouts does little (except show the title of the design or
layout).

Is anyone else experiencing these problems? Is there a fix? (I've done the
"detect and repair" twice. I've not had much success with that.)

 

[Guest]

Lots of folk have this problem. Someone posted this week that it didn't
happen if he closed outlook. There's lots more info but no definite solution
here

http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00779.htm

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Lots of folk have this problem. Someone posted this week that it didn't
happen if he closed outlook. There's lots more info but no definite solution
here

http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00779.htm

And I've updated that page to include the Outlook + Word As Email Editor + Word
Addins problem/solution.