How To Abort a presentation

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Sometimes you may want to abort the application and get out. For example, you hit the save button by mistake and it is trying to save the file. How do I stop the save action? If I end the application, whatever changes I have made will be lost. Sometimes, if I double click on the excel sheet I have pasted, it will just hang. The only way I could get out is by ending the application.

Any way out of this issues? Thx
 
Sometimes you may want to abort the application and get out. For example,
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you hit the save button by mistake and it is trying to save the file.

Unless you have a backup of your presentation, you DON'T want to abort while
PowerPoint is saving. That's a good way to court corruption.

In other cases, you may have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, choose Task Manager and end
the Powerpnt.exe process (something you should do only if PowerPoint is
completely hung or won't open because a prior copy is stuck in the task list)
have made will be lost. Sometimes, if I double click on the excel sheet I have
pasted, it will just hang. The only way I could get out is by ending the
application.

It seems that this is the real problem you want to solve, isn't it?

Does this happen with all presentations and/or with any excel content you've
pasted into PPT? What version of PPT?

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Thanks Steve for posting your reply. The problem started when I opened a file from my network server and was making changes to the presentation. I think I hit the save button but at that time the network was not available. Neither I was able to save my file nor get out of powerpoint. It was hanging for a file and had to end it to get out.
Regarding the excel, I get into this problem very often. I double click on an excel file pasted in my presentation and it will hang. We are using Powerpoint 2002 release SP-2. Thanks
 
Thanks Steve for posting your reply. The problem started when I opened a file from
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my network server and was making changes to the presentation. I think I hit the save
button but at that time the network was not available. Neither I was able to save
my file nor get out of powerpoint. It was hanging for a file and had to end it to
get out.>>

Aha. Did you give it a while before trying to abort the save? I suspect that PPT
might wait for the network timeout to expire ... that can take a while. On one
system (with PPT2003) I just tried saving after unplugging the network cable and ppt
appeared to hang for 30 seconds or more, but finally I got a message box "There was
an error accessing (filename)"

The timeout may be longer on other network setups ... I don't know.
Regarding the excel, I get into this problem very often. I double click on an
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excel file pasted in my presentation and it will hang. We are using Powerpoint 2002
release SP-2. Thanks

If you give it some time, do any error messages appear? I'd give it as much as a few
minutes.



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