Boxes and arrows (connectors) not displayed

M

Michael Moser

I have a presentation that I am working on and more and more often my
system falls into a mode, where text-boxes and lines, arrows and
connectors in the slides simply "disappear", i.e. are not displayed
any more. Only the descriptions (i.e. the text inside the text-boxes)
remains. I get the impression this might be some graphics driver
problem, but it seems to be triggered by (or at least manifests in)
PowerPoint only, that why I post here.

Restarting PowerPoint does not help. So far I found no other
workaround than to reboot my system after which the presentation is
displayed OK again and I can continue working on it.

This on an IBM ThinkPad 31p (ATI Mobility Fire GL 7800 based graphic
system) running under Windows 2000 (SP4), PowerPoint's version is 2002
(SP2).

Has anybody made similar experiences and/or knows what could cause
this and/or some workaround?

Michael
 
S

Sonia

What happens when you run the same presentation on another system or in Safe
mode on the ThinkPad? When did you last update your video driver?
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003
 

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