Powerpoint formating

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Linda

Customers have Office XP and have created several graphs
in a new PP presentation. When they right click on the
data in a cell the option to move all up one, delete
entire row etc. is very faint - not just greyed out but
rather hidden behind the data table. If they try to
format the border of the graph - the same thing - the
options are hidden behind the table and if you click
around in the area you can kind of see them. If they open
a PP presentation that was created with an earlier version
of office (2000 I think) they can format and change the
graphs and data properly. Have uninstalled and re-
installed PP. Excel works normally and does not have these
problems. They don't want to create in Excel and then
paste into PP. They are used to creating the PP slides in
PP and working only in PP. Searched the web and MS and
have not found an answer.
Any thoughts???
Thanks,
Linda
 
Well, at first I thought the data table is just in the way, which would
suggest that they need to close the data table.

But if the menus are showing up behind the data table when they's what
they're trying to edit, well, that's definitely not the problem, then!

Have you tried updating video drivers and changing the hardware
acceleration settings? Instrux for HA at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm
 
Thanks for your reply.
These are 2 identical new - Dell laptops with XP Pro. Bought in July.
Don't think I want to fool with the drivers without calling Dell, maybe I
should ask them about it
Linda
 
You should be able to find the drivers on the Dell website. They probably
have instructions on how to download and install them. New computers aren't
really new. Months and months can pass between the time a machine is built
and it is delivered to you. In the meantime, drivers are updated very
frequently. Your machines could have driver versions that are more than a
year old.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
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Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003
 
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