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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2007Copy and paste before opening PPT
Hello, If I copy an image or text and then open PPT to paste it in the paste option is not available (grayed out). The data is on the clipboard because I can paste it into Word, but not PPT. What I have to do is wait for PPT to open and then go back and copy the data again before pasting it into PPT. Does anyone know if this can be fixed so I can paste what was copied before opening PPT? PPT 2003 Win XP Thanks. PowerPoint has done this for several versions. On start, it clears the clipboard it uses. Open PowerPoint then copy from another app. Sorry, no work around I know of.  SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks. I'm trying to figure out what the rationale for that is. Any ideas? > PowerPoint has done this for several versions. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >> Thanks. > I'm trying to figure out what the rationale for that is. Any ideas? I'll have to take issue with this. I just copied Bill's reply, started PPT, clicked within a text placeholder and pasted the text in. So it sounds like it's not PowerPoint that clears the clipboard. Some add-ins do though; if they use custom button images, the clipboard is a common way of getting the images on the buttons. > > PowerPoint has done this for several versions. > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >> > >> Thanks. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Sometimes, sorta, not always... Much depends on the amount of RAM in the machine, the video card/driver, and version of DirectX installed and supported by the video card/driver. Issue is that GDI (or GDI++) has a finite amount of storage. When PPT fires up it wants as much of this as it can grab. If you have plenty of storage (ram and video ram) it works as you said, if not the GDI buffer gets flushed for PPTs use. Austin's Rule #1 There is no such thing as too much RAM or Video RAM. :-) Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com >> I'm trying to figure out what the rationale for that is. Any ideas? > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ I've got 2G of RAM and two NIVIDIA 8600 video cards and the problem happens whether I have lots of apps running or not. I'm not even sure what apps to disable to see if that's the problem. Adobe 8 Pro causes weird stuff sometimes so maybe that's the culprit? I'm open to ideas. > Sometimes, sorta, not always... > [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] >> PPTools: www.pptools.com >> ================================================ On my virtual machine I am able to copy, open PPT, and paste, so it is something running on my physical PC. I wonder what it is. > I've got 2G of RAM and two NIVIDIA 8600 video cards and the problem > happens whether I have lots of apps running or not. I'm not even sure what [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] >>> PPTools: www.pptools.com >>> ================================================ Not real sure about this. I've gotten out of the habit of trusting PowerPoint not to clear the clipboard. Laptop - 2.0 GB RAM and Mobile Intel -Win XP - PowerPoint 2003. Both text and pictures make the transition Desktop - 1.5 GB RAM and NVidia 5200 - Win XP - PowerPoint 2003. Neither text nor pictures make the transition when PowerPoint is started on this system. (Main production machine) Laptop - 1.0 GB RAM and ATI x600 - Win XP - PowerPoint 2003. Both make the transition. Desktop - 768 MB RAM and Intel Extreme - Win XP - PowerPoint 2007. Barely boots, but brings over both picts or text. I'm thinking there are gremlins running the Ouija-based clipboard. SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > On my virtual machine I am able to copy, open PPT, and paste, so it is > something running on my physical PC. I wonder what it is. [quoted text clipped - 67 lines] >>>> PPTools: www.pptools.com >>>> ================================================ > Not real sure about this. I've gotten out of the habit of trusting > PowerPoint not to clear the clipboard. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I'm thinking there are gremlins running the Ouija-based clipboard. Or add-ins run^Hining it? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ > I've got 2G of RAM and two NIVIDIA 8600 video cards and the problem happens > whether I have lots of apps running or not. I'm not even sure what apps to > disable to see if that's the problem. Adobe 8 Pro causes weird stuff > sometimes so maybe that's the culprit? Adobe Acrobat, that'd be? I'm not sure of version 8; at least *some* previous versions did clear the clipboard (or left an Adobe logo of some kind on the clipboard, I forget which). > I'm open to ideas. > [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > >> PPTools: www.pptools.com > >> ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Curious. What qualifies as "not enough"? For example, I just tried it in a VMWare machine with 512mb allocated, WinTookay, PPT2003, video = whatever VMWare emulates. Low end, for sure, though it supports 32bit color up to some sillybig resolution ... 2500xsomething. DirectX 9 is installed. Works fine. I wonder if could be a question of whether there's enough GDI resources to store whatever it is we're copying (as opposed to whether PPT blitzes it) IE, not enough to hold it so it never gets there in the first place. > Sometimes, sorta, not always... > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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