Hey Doc,
This solution will seem a little strange. Well... I guess it is strange, so
that fits and all is right in the world. Turn off/down you video
acceleration on your computer's graphics card.
What is probably happening is that your first slide has object(s) with
transparencies. DirectX (or some such component) sees this and gets
electronically excited that it has something to do, so it starts merrily
rendering away. Then some other part of the video process comes up and
sneers at it and says the binary equivalent of, "you call that a clean
screen?" Well, being easily guilted into action, the rendering process
restarts before it has had a chance to complete, leaving no time to accept
your ideas and suggestions for improvement. This sort of neurotic obsessive
compulsive redrawing will sometimes stop on its own (after a few
dozen/hundred/thousand redraws) but who has time to wait for cyber-psych
problems.
Without PowerPoint running, right click on an open part of the desktop and
select 'properties. Alternately, you can get to the same dialog by clicking
Start => Control Panel => Display. Select the 'Settings' tab and click on
the 'advanced' button. You may see a 'Trouble-shooting' tab on the next
dialog box, depending on the video drivers installed. What you are looking
for is a slider that will allow you to turn down the video acceleration.
When you find this slider, take it down a few notches. Click 'OK' out of
everything and start PowerPoint. If the slide still twitches like a
frog-leg hooked to a car battery, repeat the process and turn the
acceleration down another few notches. It should stop obsessing and become
a stable and productive member of your computer file system at some point.
Post back and let us know if this resolved the issue.
--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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