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HAS - 04 Jan 2006 11:07 GMT

Running Ppt 2003 & Visio 2003
I have a ppt pres with visio objects which I ctrl-c ctrl-v ed from a word doc.
Now whenever I touch anything on such a slide, the slide keeps redrawing on
screen FOREVER, or sometimes, for very many times (~20). It only stops
(temporarily) when I select (click) the visio drawing itself.

As you can imagine, working in this context is a NIGHTMARE...

It seems to me like a time lock or handshake problem. The redrawing takes
rather long, I can see the elements of the drawing being redrawn in sequence.
Interestingly, between the repetitions, the redraw order of the elements
changes!

Is there anything in the settings/options of either ppt or visio I can do to
get rid of this?

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Glen Millar - 04 Jan 2006 10:20 GMT

Hi,

When you paste straight out of Visio you are creating OLE which is Object
Linking and Embedding. That takes a lot of resources. Do they still have to
be Visio files in PowerPoint. Could you paste Special as an image?

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> Running Ppt 2003 & Visio 2003
> I have a ppt pres with visio objects which I ctrl-c ctrl-v ed from a word
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> to
> get rid of this?

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TAJ Simmons - 04 Jan 2006 16:56 GMT

HAS

I'm guessing this is not just "visio" drawings but a powerpoint problem with
an old "graphics card" driver.

Try updating your graphics card driver.

e.g.
http://www.ati.com
http://www.nvidia.com

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> Running Ppt 2003 & Visio 2003
> I have a ppt pres with visio objects which I ctrl-c ctrl-v ed from a word
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> to
> get rid of this?

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ProsperousOne - 13 Mar 2008 21:11 GMT

I had this exact same problem, but with Pictures. The presentation was 100
slides long, with many pics on each slide.

The file was working fine, came back the next day, and WHAM! get a redraw
of the first slide 100 times (and slow at that).

Even after deleting all slides but the first, it still redrew forever.

After many hours, figured out that the master side had a background color
set to gray. I deleted the back ground color from the master, and PRESTO!
no more problem.

I rechanged the color to gray, and it's working great.

Interesting note: The issue occured on several computers with the same
file, but not others... bizzare.

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Bill Dilworth - 14 Mar 2008 02:30 GMT

In the past, this has had more to do with the graphics acceleration used by
the computer than the background color.

You might want to try setting your hardware acceleration back a notch or two
and see if the problem goes away.
***How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

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>I had this exact same problem, but with Pictures. The presentation was 100
> slides long, with many pics on each slide.
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> Interesting note: The issue occured on several computers with the same
> file, but not others... bizzare.

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