Cannot save presentation

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Jan Kronsell

I have a presentation 96 slides, 3,75 Mb. For some reason I can't save
changes to the presentation. I have tried saving under a different name, but
that does not help. I tried importing all the slides into a new
presentation, and still can't save. Any sugestions on what is causing the
probem and what to do?

I am using PP 2002, but the presentation was orininally made in PP 2000.

Jan
 
Nothing happens.! Just the usual hourglass for a long, long time. When I
look at the joblist, I can see that the program is not responding, and I has
to end it. Its just this one presentation and I have tried it on three
different computers.

Btw the prentation can be show all right and I can make all the changes I
want. I just cant save them. Its a bit annoying, as I still quite a few
slides from completing it.

Jan
 
I suspect that there is one slide that is causing the hang up. One way to
track it down is to split the presentation into pieces and identify which
piece the slide resides in. Then split that one and repeat.

So, for example, open the presentation, go to Slide Sorter view, select the
first half of the slides and delete them. Try to save to a new name. If it
doesn't save, it will be an indication that the slide is somewhere in the
second half of the presentation. If it does save, it will indicate that the
slide is in the first half, but try saving that half just to confirm. Make
sense? Split the bad half into two and repeat.

Once you isolate the slide you can either recreate it or you can study and
ponder it for things that might be causing the problem.
 
Jan, what Sonia said.

But also, head to Tools/Options and make sure you have Allow Fast Saves turned off. Then try a File/Save As and see if you can save the presentation. If so, reopen it, make a change, and then try a regular save.

Not sure that will do the trick, but it's worth a shot.

If you do get the thing to save, I'd recommend "round tripping" it to rout out any leftover woolies (technical term, that). See http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/round_trip.htm for instructions.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com
 
Thank you both. Youre ideas put me on the right track and I've got the
problem figured out now. It was not one, but two specific slides, that
caused the troubles. When I tried to save each of those alone in a
presentation, they saved allright, but saving lasted more than 3 minutes for
each of the two slides. Apparently the added saving time for those two
slides, and the other 98, saving without problems, causes Win XP to believe
the program is not responding and therefore abends it.

What cuased the long saving time was thjat I specified Integrate True Type
fonts, and those two slides used a specific, non standard True Type font, so
even if they only contained text, it took a very long time to save. Now I
removed Integrate True Type from my file, and now it works Ok. Now my only
problem is, that I have to install the specific font on each and every
computer, where the presentation must run :-(

Jan

Echo S said:
Jan, what Sonia said.

But also, head to Tools/Options and make sure you have Allow Fast Saves
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turned off. Then try a File/Save As and see if you can save the
presentation. If so, reopen it, make a change, and then try a regular save.
Not sure that will do the trick, but it's worth a shot.

If you do get the thing to save, I'd recommend "round tripping" it to rout
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out any leftover woolies (technical term, that). See
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/round_trip.htm for instructions.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com



Jan Kronsell said:
Nothing happens.! Just the usual hourglass for a long, long time. When I
look at the joblist, I can see that the program is not responding, and I has
to end it. Its just this one presentation and I have tried it on three
different computers.

Btw the prentation can be show all right and I can make all the changes I
want. I just cant save them. Its a bit annoying, as I still quite a few
slides from completing it.

Jan

causing
the
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Thanks for posting back with your resolution, Jan. I'm glad to hear that you
got it worked out; sorry to hear you'll have to install the font on those
machines.

Ah, technology.

Echo
 
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