Power Point Viewer 2003/2007 - stuck on a black screen
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From: אריק on 18 May 2010 05:01 Hello, I have built a Presentation using PowerPoint 2003. After finishing the presentation, I click on Package CD from the file menu to publish the presentation. The presentation contains sub presentations (it was built in modular way). To navigate between the divers presentations, I am using the hyperlinks. I saw that the presentation intermittently become Non-Responsive (i.e. Getting “Stuck” with “Black Screen”) when double left clicking on a link or when using the “Escape” keyboard button repeatedly to close & exit the open Presentations. I think that there is a problem in the powerpoint viewer 2003 (it also appears in the ppviewer 2007). When I am running the presentation from the powerpoint 2003 (not viewer), the problem doesn't appear. Thanks for help
From: David Marcovitz on 18 May 2010 09:27 Arik, How are you linking the presentations. Are you going from one presentation to another and another, or are you linking to one presentation and then using End Show to return to the main presentation? If you keep hyperlinking without using End Show to return to the main presentation, PowerPoint is likely to get confused eventually as each presentation remains open and eating resources. I suspect you are noticing this in the Viewer because the Viewer is less able to handle the need for extra resources, but I'm not sure about that. You might want to check out the PowerPoint Linking Tutorial found here: http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm --David On 5/18/10 5:01 AM, אריק wrote: > Hello, > I have built a Presentation using PowerPoint 2003. After finishing the > presentation, I click on Package CD from the file menu to publish the > presentation. > The presentation contains sub presentations (it was built in modular way). > To navigate between the divers presentations, I am using the hyperlinks. > > I saw that the presentation intermittently become Non-Responsive (i.e. > Getting “Stuck” with “Black Screen”) when double left clicking on a link or > when using the “Escape” keyboard button repeatedly to close& exit the open > Presentations. I think that there is a problem in the powerpoint viewer 2003 > (it also appears in the ppviewer 2007). When I am running the presentation > from the powerpoint 2003 (not viewer), the problem doesn't appear. > > Thanks for help -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
From: אריק on 20 May 2010 01:15 Hello David, Thank you for your reply. The presentation contains ~100 sub presentations and all one of them have a link to the home page. So as you said, I have links to already open presentation and that's might be the problem. What is the solution to prevent the "stuck on black screen" without removing the return to home page link. If I am removing the link to the home page, it means that if I am currently in a tenth level of a sub category from the Home page, I will have to click esc 10 times to return the home page and contine my presentation, this is not friendly way. "David Marcovitz" wrote: > Arik, > > How are you linking the presentations. Are you going from one > presentation to another and another, or are you linking to one > presentation and then using End Show to return to the main presentation? > If you keep hyperlinking without using End Show to return to the main > presentation, PowerPoint is likely to get confused eventually as each > presentation remains open and eating resources. I suspect you are > noticing this in the Viewer because the Viewer is less able to handle > the need for extra resources, but I'm not sure about that. You might > want to check out the PowerPoint Linking Tutorial found here: > > http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm > > --David > > On 5/18/10 5:01 AM, אריק wrote: > > Hello, > > I have built a Presentation using PowerPoint 2003. After finishing the > > presentation, I click on Package CD from the file menu to publish the > > presentation. > > The presentation contains sub presentations (it was built in modular way). > > To navigate between the divers presentations, I am using the hyperlinks. > > > > I saw that the presentation intermittently become Non-Responsive (i.e. > > Getting “Stuck” with “Black Screen”) when double left clicking on a link or > > when using the “Escape” keyboard button repeatedly to close& exit the open > > Presentations. I think that there is a problem in the powerpoint viewer 2003 > > (it also appears in the ppviewer 2007). When I am running the presentation > > from the powerpoint 2003 (not viewer), the problem doesn't appear. > > > > Thanks for help > > > -- > David M. Marcovitz > Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ > http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP > Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland > . >
From: David Marcovitz on 20 May 2010 09:34 Yes, that is a tough problem, but it is likely the cause of your problem if you are indeed linking to 10 sub presentations and then directly back to the home page. One solution is not to do that ("Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do that." "Then don't do that."), but that doesn't seem to fit your needs. I'm thinking that the only alternative is going to involve VBA. Is that an option for you? You mentioned you are publishing to CD. Does that mean that you are distributing this to computers over which you have limited control? If so, VBA might not be such a good idea. However, if you are just publishing it to CD to take it with you, and you can adjust the settings to allow macros to run on the computers you run the PPT on, VBA might work well in this case. --David On 5/20/10 1:15 AM, אריק wrote: > Hello David, > Thank you for your reply. > The presentation contains ~100 sub presentations and all one of them have a > link to the home page. So as you said, I have links to already open > presentation and that's might be the problem. > What is the solution to prevent the "stuck on black screen" without removing > the return to home page link. If I am removing the link to the home page, it > means that if I am currently in a tenth level of a sub category from the Home > page, I will have to click esc 10 times to return the home page and contine > my presentation, this is not friendly way. > > "David Marcovitz" wrote: > >> Arik, >> >> How are you linking the presentations. Are you going from one >> presentation to another and another, or are you linking to one >> presentation and then using End Show to return to the main presentation? >> If you keep hyperlinking without using End Show to return to the main >> presentation, PowerPoint is likely to get confused eventually as each >> presentation remains open and eating resources. I suspect you are >> noticing this in the Viewer because the Viewer is less able to handle >> the need for extra resources, but I'm not sure about that. You might >> want to check out the PowerPoint Linking Tutorial found here: >> >> http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm >> >> --David >> >> On 5/18/10 5:01 AM, אריק wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I have built a Presentation using PowerPoint 2003. After finishing the >>> presentation, I click on Package CD from the file menu to publish the >>> presentation. >>> The presentation contains sub presentations (it was built in modular way). >>> To navigate between the divers presentations, I am using the hyperlinks. >>> >>> I saw that the presentation intermittently become Non-Responsive (i.e. >>> Getting “Stuck” with “Black Screen”) when double left clicking on a link or >>> when using the “Escape” keyboard button repeatedly to close& exit the open >>> Presentations. I think that there is a problem in the powerpoint viewer 2003 >>> (it also appears in the ppviewer 2007). When I am running the presentation >>> from the powerpoint 2003 (not viewer), the problem doesn't appear. >>> >>> Thanks for help >> >> >> -- >> David M. Marcovitz >> Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ >> http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ >> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP >> Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland >> . >> -- David M. Marcovitz Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland
From: אריק on 23 May 2010 00:39
The objective is to put the presentation on DVD (~3GB including ppt, linked files such as pdf, jpg, mpg) and distribute it to hundreds peoples. Two problems with VBA: 1) Security levels (depends on client computer) 2) ppviewer can not run macros, exe files and also VBA. What can I do? Thank you for your help. "David Marcovitz" wrote: > Yes, that is a tough problem, but it is likely the cause of your problem > if you are indeed linking to 10 sub presentations and then directly back > to the home page. One solution is not to do that ("Doctor, doctor, it > hurts when I do that." "Then don't do that."), but that doesn't seem to > fit your needs. I'm thinking that the only alternative is going to > involve VBA. Is that an option for you? You mentioned you are publishing > to CD. Does that mean that you are distributing this to computers over > which you have limited control? If so, VBA might not be such a good > idea. However, if you are just publishing it to CD to take it with you, > and you can adjust the settings to allow macros to run on the computers > you run the PPT on, VBA might work well in this case. > --David > > On 5/20/10 1:15 AM, אריק wrote: > > Hello David, > > Thank you for your reply. > > The presentation contains ~100 sub presentations and all one of them have a > > link to the home page. So as you said, I have links to already open > > presentation and that's might be the problem. > > What is the solution to prevent the "stuck on black screen" without removing > > the return to home page link. If I am removing the link to the home page, it > > means that if I am currently in a tenth level of a sub category from the Home > > page, I will have to click esc 10 times to return the home page and contine > > my presentation, this is not friendly way. > > > > "David Marcovitz" wrote: > > > >> Arik, > >> > >> How are you linking the presentations. Are you going from one > >> presentation to another and another, or are you linking to one > >> presentation and then using End Show to return to the main presentation? > >> If you keep hyperlinking without using End Show to return to the main > >> presentation, PowerPoint is likely to get confused eventually as each > >> presentation remains open and eating resources. I suspect you are > >> noticing this in the Viewer because the Viewer is less able to handle > >> the need for extra resources, but I'm not sure about that. You might > >> want to check out the PowerPoint Linking Tutorial found here: > >> > >> http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointlinking.htm > >> > >> --David > >> > >> On 5/18/10 5:01 AM, אריק wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> I have built a Presentation using PowerPoint 2003. After finishing the > >>> presentation, I click on Package CD from the file menu to publish the > >>> presentation. > >>> The presentation contains sub presentations (it was built in modular way). > >>> To navigate between the divers presentations, I am using the hyperlinks. > >>> > >>> I saw that the presentation intermittently become Non-Responsive (i.e. > >>> Getting “Stuck” with “Black Screen”) when double left clicking on a link or > >>> when using the “Escape” keyboard button repeatedly to close& exit the open > >>> Presentations. I think that there is a problem in the powerpoint viewer 2003 > >>> (it also appears in the ppviewer 2007). When I am running the presentation > >>> from the powerpoint 2003 (not viewer), the problem doesn't appear. > >>> > >>> Thanks for help > >> > >> > >> -- > >> David M. Marcovitz > >> Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ > >> http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > >> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP > >> Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland > >> . > >> > > > -- > David M. Marcovitz > Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ > http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Microsoft PowerPoint MVP > Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland > . > |