Slides inserted from another presentation areblank or partially blank

[Whitney_Waters]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Slides inserted from another presentation (even one that is PowerPoint 2008) are either blank or partially blank. My client was getting totally blank slides; he sent me the presentation he was trying to insert and in my tests, I was getting one slide with title and text, but the other slide was the title only. I re-established slide layout and re-saved the presentation, but the same error still occurs.

 

[CyberTaz]

Fundamental points first of all:

Is Office fully updated? 12.1.7 is the current level for Office 2008.

Is OS X fully updated (10.5.6) with disk permissions repaired?

What method is being ued to "insert" the slides? Step-by-step.

What type of content *should have* been on the slide? How was it added to
the original? Did that file originate in PPt 2008 or from some other
version? If some other version, which?

 

[Whitney_Waters]

1. Office is fully updated.
2. Mac OS is not Leopard but Tiger as I indicated, however it is fully updated to 10.4.11.
3. Method used is "Insert > Slides From... > Existing Presentation." Slides are selected, "Keep formatting" is unchecked.
4. As I indicated the content was text. It is just basic black text. I did not create the original, but it originated in PPT 2008, and as I indicated I also re-established Slide Layout and re-saved it in PPT 2008 just to make sure, and then re-tried the "Insert..." process.

 

[CyberTaz]

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but I've been playing with this &
just don't know what else to suggest :-(

I've never had this happen, I've not seen reports of it happening, not have
I been able to force it to happen here -- even with source file created on a
PC. Without being able to reproduce it I'm pretty much at a loss.

My instincts tell me that it must be something about the source file or its
content that's causing the problem. Unfortunately, your resave effort is
evidently retaining whatever that anomaly might be.

Have you tried copying the problem slide & pasting it into a different file?

Have you tried Inserting from the other presentation using the Keep
Design... checkbox?

Do you have similar issues if you Insert from other files?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac