Text stacks

[Ashley Howard]

Dual Monitors on PowerPoint 2002 running on Windows XP.

Every so often when running a PowerPoint show the text on the slide show
monitor (which is sent to the projector) will stack every letter of a
particular line on top of the first letter. Weird thing is it keeps the
shadow of the text where the text is suppose to be. The Edit window shows
the text where it is suppose to be as well. We have had this happen to us
on both machines that we run PowerPoint on. They are both set up the same
way, dual monitors, ppt2002, windows xp) but the amount of memory and ram
extremely differ.

If anyone knows what causes this or what can be done to fix it, I would
greatly appreciate it.

Ashley Howard
Technical Arts
Overlake Christian Church

 

[Tushar Mehta]

It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one encountering this problem
-- and other bizarre display (*) problems. My first guess was that
they were related to missing fonts. But that is not the case on any of
my machines. Against my better judgement I've concluded that the
problems are resource-related at the level of PP.

Three workarounds and one preemptive measure I've found are: (1) Move
to the next screen and come back. Sometimes that fixes it. If not,
(2) close and re-open the presentation. Sometimes that fixes it, but
the problem may (will?) resurface on a later slide. So, (3) it's safer
to reboot.

Since (1) is barely acceptable, and (2) and (3) are simply out of the
question in the middle of a presentation, what I do as a preemptive
measure is to go through the entire presentation, click-by-click
*before* the actual presentation. If I encounter a display problem,
use the close-reopen option. If that doesn't fix it, reboot. So far I
haven't had a problem the first time through a presentation after a
reboot.

(*) Other problems I've seen include missing bullets (or one missing
line in a 2-line bullet) -- PP will simply skip a line or two on a
slide!

--
Regards,

Tushar Mehta, MS MVP -- Excel
www.tushar-mehta.com
Excel, PowerPoint, and VBA add-ins, tutorials
Custom MS Office productivity solutions

 

[Echo S]

We had this happen a few weeks ago in my office. It wasn't a problem
font, but it sure was a head scratcher for a few minutes!

Turns out that turning hardware acceleration down a couple of notches
cured it. At least for us it did. Much more reliable than the
close/reopen! See http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm for
instrux on changing hardware acceleration.