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carolslp - 26 Oct 2006 17:05 GMT

Graphics embedded in Powerpoint slides are being blacked out. Half to 2/4rds
of the pictures disappear. This is in new slide shows and old ones that I
have previously run many times. I have turned down the acceleration rate and
downloaded the most recent video driver, but this is still happening.

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Echo S - 27 Oct 2006 14:25 GMT

You've tried the two things I would suggest.

Try turning hardware acceleration all the way to the left. Does that help at
all?

Oh, wait -- when you say "half to 2/3rds of the pictures" disappear, do you
mean a whole picture is black or do you mean that you can see part of a
picture and part of it is black?

If it's entired pictures that are not showing up, you probably need to
install SP2 for Office 2003. You can open PPT and go to Help|Check for
Updates to get it.

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> Graphics embedded in Powerpoint slides are being blacked out. Half to
> 2/4rds
> of the pictures disappear. This is in new slide shows and old ones that I
> have previously run many times. I have turned down the acceleration rate
> and
> downloaded the most recent video driver, but this is still happening.

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carolslp - 28 Oct 2006 05:45 GMT

Generally I can still see the top half or third of the picture.

> You've tried the two things I would suggest.
>
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> > and
> > downloaded the most recent video driver, but this is still happening.

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Echo S - 28 Oct 2006 18:54 GMT

Okay, thanks. That's what I thought you meant, but then I realized it could
be read a couple of different ways.

Only thing I know to suggest is knocking hardware acceleration clear to the
left to turn it all the way off.

I'd also suspect oversized images -- meaning really large ones -- but since
they are existing presentations that previously worked well, that doesn't
seem very likely -- unless maybe you're now on a different computer.

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> Generally I can still see the top half or third of the picture.
>
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>> > and
>> > downloaded the most recent video driver, but this is still happening.

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