Tables in PowerPoint 2003 are flashing

[Dirk]

I have a machine where PowerPoint 2003 is not handling tables well.
The table will flash like it is continually refreshing. It can get
bad enough that PPT will not take any input and I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL
and End Task on it.

These same PPT files open fine on other machines, including machines
with PPT2003.

Anybody have any suggestions?

 

[Echo S]

I have a machine where PowerPoint 2003 is not handling tables well.
The table will flash like it is continually refreshing. It can get
bad enough that PPT will not take any input and I have to CTRL+ALT+DEL
and End Task on it.

These same PPT files open fine on other machines, including machines
with PPT2003.

Anybody have any suggestions?

I've seen something similar with graphs. In my case, I had SETI running
in the background; turning it off took care of the problem. Well, that
and mucking with my display settings.

You might try turning off various background programs and see if they
have any effect. If not, update your video drivers, see if changing
hardware acceleration makes a difference (instrux at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm), change your color depth
on the display settings, make sure you have the latest version of
DirectX, turn off any 3D acceleration your video card might have, see if
changing your refresh rate (also in display settings) helps.

 

[token22]

Similar problem

I'm having a similar problem.

Whenever I change slide or make a small modification, the whole slide refreshes, sometimes 5 or 6 times, and it’s a slow refresh too. This is a bit annoying and never used to happen with previous versions of PowerPoint.

I'm thinking it maybe something to do with the new slide bar for transparency that replaced the toggle switch for ‘semi-transparent’ there used to be.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a fix?

PS – Noting Echo S’s post above: This is on a CAD machine, so it’s high spec with all current drivers etc. Pretty sure it’s an MS software issue.