Can Only Exit With Force Quit

[Roger Schlemmer]

15 inch 800MHz iMac
Office X

Do you have any suggestions about exiting Power Point?
Lately, the only way I can quit PP is by using Force Quit.
Command W and Command Q have no affect.
This is a new development.
Hardly use Office X except for Entourage X and very occasionally Word, no
problems with either of these.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

First thing to try is to install the updates for Office X
10.1.2
10.1.4
10.1.5

Then use Disk Utility First Aid to repair permissions.

If that doesn't fix things, please post back.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Roger Schlemmer]

OK Jim

Made sure that Power Point was version 10.1.5, it is.

I ran First Aid in Disc Utility again. It seems to only do repair
permissions on ./private/var/run/utimp everytime I run it.

Recently ran fsck -y, that turned out with an OK too.

But after I viewed a .pps file, the dock showed that it was active and
selecting it in the dock and clicking on "quit" didn't close it. "Quit Power
Point" from the tool bar does nothing.

Only force quit will close it now. Used to work fine.

Don't tell me to re-install anything. This stuff is getting to complicated
for grey haired old grandpas.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi again,

Then let's try something easy. Head to the Preferences folder. With
PowerPoint turned off trash PowerPoint's preferences. Empty the trash. Then
start PowerPoint up and see if it's better.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Roger Schlemmer]

Something Easy, huh?
Still looking for PowerPoint preferences.
You're not dealing with a computer geek here.
Thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate your assistance.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

To find the preferences folder from the desktop double click on your hard
drive icon, then your username icon, then library, then preferences (I'm
going from memory here).

If that's not right, from the desktop use Apple+F and search on the word
PowerPoint and the preferences should turn up.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Rolf Schmolling]

Hallo,
Powerpoint-preferences are in the "Microsoft"-Folder in the
"Preference"-Folder:

You'll find it here:

Start with:

User (that's the Folder with the house and Your user-name on it)
Double-click on "Library"
Double-click on "Preferences"
Double-click on "Library"
Double-click on "Microsoft"
Find "PowerPoint Preferences"

Trash and follow Jim¹s advice, it works for many OSX-related problems.

Greetings Rolf

Am 18.11.2003 3:02 Uhr schrieb "Jim Gordon MVP" unter

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Thanks, Rolf,

Usually I am answering these questions while using OS 8.6 so I didn't want
to take a guess and give the wrong path.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Rolf Schmolling]

Hi,
Something importand I forgot to tell:
The preference-file is named ³PowerPoint Settings² so You actually found it
already.
Greetings Rolf

Am 20.11.2003 6:06 Uhr schrieb "Jim Gordon MVP" unter