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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2008NEW POST: Loading Preview delay
I'm having an annoying problem with PowerPoint 2003: In short, I open PowerPoint, I go to the "Format" pull-down menu and select "Slide Design". This brings up my templates (I have about 200), so I can pick the one I want to use for the presentation. The problem is that it displays all of the templates on the right side of the screen, but each is an empty box which reads "AIRMAIL.POT Loading Preview...", "ANGLES.POT Loading Preview...", etc. and it takes about 20 seconds for *each* preview image to load. PP runs slow until all are generated (about 20-40 minutes), and once all are generated they will be there if I close PP and restart. However, if I reboot the computer, they are all gone again and the process starts all over when I go to use my templates. The odd thing is that I've got a zippy graphics card and CPU, running Windows XP SP2 with 1GB of RAM, and I didn't used to have this problem. It used to just zip through the list and create all the template previews in just a few seconds. I figure a setting somewhere must have gotten changed or maybe a file corrupted, but I can't seem to find it. I have PP on my laptop, and I have all the same templates there as well, and it does not have this problem. I went to "Tools" "Options..." and compared all the PP settings on each, and my desktop and laptop PP settings are the same. I've tried to search in the MS Knowledge Base on this, but haven't found anything useful. As you can imagine, this really cuts into my productivity when I want to use PowerPoint. Any ideas on what might be causing this problem and how to fix it would be most welcome. Thanks. Cestus, See if this helps: http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00779.htm  SignatureLuc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint > I'm having an annoying problem with PowerPoint 2003: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > use PowerPoint. Any ideas on what might be causing this problem and how to > fix it would be most welcome. Thanks. Thanks. Working through the list. Defrag not an issue. Win XP and Office 2003 both up to date. Downloaded newest graphics driver (went from version 163.71 to 163.75), but problem persists. Checked add-ins under PowerPoint, but there are none listed. I don't use Outlook, ever. Getting near the end of the list. Will keep working. Open to other suggestions. Thanks. > Cestus, > See if this helps: > http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00779.htm > Cestus, > See if this helps: > http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00779.htm Sorry no reply for a while. I think I've worked through all the suggestions. No joy. I'll let you know if I figure it out. Thanks again. Happy Holidays. In addition to Luc's suggestion, a wild guess. Navigate to the folder where your templates are stored using Windows Explorer. Once there, choose Tools, Folder Options, View tab See if there's a check next to "Do not cache thumbnails" If so, remove it and see if that helps. > I'm having an annoying problem with PowerPoint 2003: > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > to use PowerPoint. Any ideas on what might be causing this problem and > how to fix it would be most welcome. Thanks. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Steve, Is it worth adding that to the FAQ page? TAJ > Steve, > > Is it worth adding that to the FAQ page? Dunno ... Cestus says it didn't help, so I guess not. ;-) ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Steve: I checked, but that was NOT the problem. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs folder does NOT have "do not cache thumbnails" checked. Great idea though. Thanks. I'm still working through the suggestions Luc gave me. So far, no joy. I defrag regularly, keep my OS and software updated, etc. Changing hardware acceleration didn't do anything except make some other programs unhappy, so I set it back to full. Will reply here with update when I've had a chance to try them all. Thanks to both of you! (:-{>} JB > In addition to Luc's suggestion, a wild guess. > > Navigate to the folder where your templates are stored using Windows Explorer. > Once there, choose Tools, Folder Options, View tab > See if there's a check next to "Do not cache thumbnails" > If so, remove it and see if that helps. Success! Just wanted to update this post for those who were trying to help me. What I finally did was to search and find where all my .POT files were located. They were in three locations: 1 - C:\Documents and Settings\{my username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates 2 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033 3 - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\Presentation Designs I pulled all of them out to a new temp directory, deleted some duplicates, then put them all in location #1. Next time I started PP, and opened Format... Slide Design... they all instantly appeared. Just wanted to add this experience and solution to the hive mind in case others encounter it in the future. Thanks again. > I'm having an annoying problem with PowerPoint 2003: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > use PowerPoint. Any ideas on what might be causing this problem and how > to fix it would be most welcome. Thanks. |
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