Some slides disappear

[Honza Herrmann]

Any idea why some slides simply disappear from the presentation in
powerpoint 2003? Actually, the slides are present, but they are blank. We
have the same problem on three machines (win2k and XP), computers are Dell
Latitude notebooks, I tried to open presentations created in various
versions of powerpoint, on older versions is everything OK, but powerpoint
2003 seems to have problems with opening his own presentations....
thanks in advance.

Jan

 

[Echo S]

In PPT 2003, go to Help/Check for Updates and install the Critical Update.
That should resolve the issue.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Any idea why some slides simply disappear from the presentation in
powerpoint 2003? Actually, the slides are present, but they are blank. We
have the same problem on three machines (win2k and XP), computers are Dell
Latitude notebooks, I tried to open presentations created in various
versions of powerpoint, on older versions is everything OK, but powerpoint
2003 seems to have problems with opening his own presentations....

There's a critical update to PPT2003 that helps with file opening problems.
Read any of John Langhan's posts for instructions. That has more to do with
Presentations that won't open at all, though. Yours apparently open but don't
display some slides.

This sounds like a video driver problem.

First off, try the suggestions here
Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Then here, particularly the video related ones:
General troubleshooting procedures
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00035.htm

And try this:
How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm