HGow to prevent PowerPoint 2003 from freezing up?

[Ed 3463]

My powewrpoint presentation frequently freezes up as I am working on it.
This presenttaion is only 377 kb and i can barely work on 2 lines without a
freeze-up.

 

[John Wilson]

Did you try Help > detect and repair

Do you have service pack2 installed? (Help > about powerpoint)

Have you anty add ins?
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[Ed 3463]

Thank you for your speedy reply. I have run the detect and repair, and have
installed SP2. I dont believe I have any add-ins.
Unfortunately, the problem persists.

This particular ppt is 3rd or 4th generation in the sense that I adapt from
previous ppts i created. this problem began to emerge in gen 2. while in
future, i will start my next one from scratch, i am too far along this work
to abandon the presentation and start afresh.
[Sigh}.

 

[Austin Myers]

Ed,

This very much sounds like the presentation is corrupted and about to fail.
I would open a new blank presentation and then import the slides from the
existing presentaiton. This should clean up whatever has gone wrong.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
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