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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / June 2006slide design task pane
When I start a new powerpoint presentation, or even open an existing one, the slide design task pane does not show the preview options for slide layout & slide design (the color scheme does show the preview). How do I fix this so I can choose my slides? Try the "Help" - "Detect and repair" menu option. It could be that your PowerPoint program files have become corrupted. This option will reinstall any parts of PowerPoint that are detected as being corrupt. I wish we had this option for our politicians! ...Tony > When I start a new powerpoint presentation, or even open an existing one, > the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > so > I can choose my slides? Thank you Tony... you are the best! > Try the "Help" - "Detect and repair" menu option. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > so > > I can choose my slides? An add-on to "StephieW": I was/am having the same problem, and I noticed that if all other Office programs are closed, then slide layout preview displays correctly. I tried the "detect and repair" answer from below, which didn't seem to do anything. Any thoughts on how to overcome this problem without having to close other Office programs? Matt > Thank you Tony... you are the best! > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > so > > > I can choose my slides? This has been cropping up more and more lately, and it's probably caused by some sort of add-in. Nice detective work finding that PPT works fine when the other Office programs are closed. So maybe it's an Office-wide add-in or helper application. Do you have any translation programs installed, by any chance?  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast) http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8 > An add-on to "StephieW": I was/am having the same problem, and I noticed > that [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> > > so >> > > I can choose my slides? Hmm, I have the translation pack for Office installed, but that has been on my computer for a while now (2+ years) and this problem only seems to be of recent origin (last month or so). In the end, I guess it's just a minor annoyance to have to close other Office programs, open PPT, and then re-open the Office programs (that seems to keep things working fine). Matt H > This has been cropping up more and more lately, and it's probably caused by > some sort of add-in. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >> > > so > >> > > I can choose my slides? Interesting. Wonder if it's a conflict between the Office translation pack and something else installed more recently? Seems a little far-fetched. So let's think about other add-ins you might have installed that run when you open the other Office apps. Anything come to mind? For example, I have Adobe Acrobat, SnagIt, and Camtasia Studio all installed. These all have hooks into various Office programs and start running when I open Word or PPT. Actually, I don't think Camtasia Studio starts running when I start Word, only when I start PPT. See how it can get complicated really fast? :-) Here's another recent thread that discusses various places to check for add-ins. You might start there. (You want the last post in that thread.) http://tinyurl.com/bc3u7 In your case, you may also want to check for add-ins listed under Word and Excel and Outlook. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast) http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8 > Hmm, I have the translation pack for Office installed, but that has been > on [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] >> >> > > so >> >> > > I can choose my slides? I like Matt had the same problem. I ran the Detect and Repair option as well as closed the other Microsoft applications. This appeared to work on my computer as well. Just food for thought. > Interesting. Wonder if it's a conflict between the Office translation pack > and something else installed more recently? Seems a little far-fetched. [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > >> >> > > so > >> >> > > I can choose my slides? Very interesting. Thanks for letting us know! SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >I like Matt had the same problem. I ran the Detect and Repair option as >well [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] >> >> >> > > so >> >> >> > > I can choose my slides? Thanks for the suggestions, Folks My experience so far with the “layouts” issue: (1) Problem seemed to go away with Office updates, but recurred. (2) Seemed to go away again with use of the “Repair” feature (as suggested by Tony (tosime) here), but reappeared again. (3) Then I checked out Matt H’s observation, and found that for me the issue correlated with having Word (but not Excel) open. I have an EndNote add-in in my Word application, but do have immediate plans to test its possible involvement by removing it, as I have been having other issues with that application, and do not have immediate plans to use the PowerPoint layouts feature much. (4) Also of interest: the issue occurs in both Office 2002/XP and 2003 for me (different computers) – come on Microsoft! > Very interesting. Thanks for letting us know! > [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > >> >> >> > > so > >> >> >> > > I can choose my slides? |
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