Copy and Paste Problems

[Guest]

In a Power Point Presentation, I am using a master slide that has at the top of it a painted yellow line that simply serves to underline the title of each slide. I know that the presentation was created with an earlier version of Power Point, but I am not sure which one.

When I try to copy a picture in a Word document that I have and paste it into my Power Point slide, at times, instead of getting the picture, I get something unexpected. I get a box which is the exact size of the picture I am trying to paste in, but the content of the picture is the painted yellow line that is at the top of all my slides.

At other times, instead of getting the box with the painted yellow line, I will get a white box (again it is the size of the picture I am trying to paste in) with a red 'X' in it.

This is an intermittent problem though. It doesn't happen all the time and it is hard to figure out exactly the conditions under which it occurs. The pictures are a variety of different kinds. Some are gifs, jpegs, wmfs or pictures created from the free latestest Adobe Reader (using that little camera icon which is in the latest version of the Reader). I am running Windows XP. I have another computer with Windows ME and Office XP and I never had any problems there with copy and paste there.

Has anyone expereinced something like this? Why is it doing this? How can I fix it? I have gotten the latest Office updates and it still has the problem. I also do Windows critical updates.

Thanks for any advice

 

[Sonia]

It sounds like you have a new system? One of the first things to do on a new
system is to visit the website of the video card manufacturer and look for an
updated video driver. If it's a laptop, go to the laptop manufacturer's website
instead. This may or may not be your problem, but it is something that should
be done regardless.

That said, try to avoid copying and pasting images in PowerPoint. Aside from
making your presentation file very large, there can be other problems associated
with image pasting. It is much better to use the Insert > Picture > Picture
from File function if you can.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

In a Power Point Presentation, I am using a master slide that has at the top

of it a painted yellow line that simply serves to underline the title of each
slide. I know that the presentation was created with an earlier version of Power
Point, but I am not sure which one.

When I try to copy a picture in a Word document that I have and paste it into

my Power Point slide, at times, instead of getting the picture, I get something
unexpected. I get a box which is the exact size of the picture I am trying to
paste in, but the content of the picture is the painted yellow line that is at
the top of all my slides.

At other times, instead of getting the box with the painted yellow line, I

will get a white box (again it is the size of the picture I am trying to paste
in) with a red 'X' in it.

This is an intermittent problem though. It doesn't happen all the time and it

is hard to figure out exactly the conditions under which it occurs. The pictures
are a variety of different kinds. Some are gifs, jpegs, wmfs or pictures created
from the free latestest Adobe Reader (using that little camera icon which is in
the latest version of the Reader). I am running Windows XP. I have another
computer with Windows ME and Office XP and I never had any problems there with
copy and paste there.

Has anyone expereinced something like this? Why is it doing this? How can I

fix it? I have gotten the latest Office updates and it still has the problem. I
also do Windows critical updates.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Wild guess, but try:

Edit, Office Clipboard from the main menu bar
See if the picture you want is on the Office Clipboard and use it to paste from
if so

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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