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From: Steve Rindsberg on 18 Apr 2010 18:46
In article <ejXnPpa1KHA.4560(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Reversed wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> I have had the same issue with PP2007 since it came out. Manipulating
> shapes takes longer and longer each time code runs UNLESS you manipulate
> something manually on the presentation/slide. This can simply be typing
> one character into the Notes Pane. If that miraculously speeds up your
> code, then you've the same issue I have. It is also in PP2010 and I've
> 'sent a frown' to Microsoft, and posted here...
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/powerpoint/thread/5761df91-64a2
-49e1-9d4c-1dcafaee9c83
>
> ....but with no luck so far.


I don't know if I asked you this the last time you posted, but is there any chance
you're in a corporate setting where there are keystroke/activity loggers installed?

We ran into this with one of our customers. Stuff that should have taken seconds
or minutes was taking literally hours on their PC. Turns out IT had installed some
kind of tracking software. Attempting to measure user productivity killed the
patient!


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From: EricG on 23 Apr 2010 11:51
I finally found this post again! It's so hard to find them after while.

Thanks for your response. I used your code snippet to duplicate exactly
what I'm seeing, and to duplicate your thought that going back to the
PowerPoint application and doing something manually "resets" the problem. I
wish I could find a VBA solution, though, because it slows down my utilities
to an unacceptable level.

Thanks,

Eric

"reversed" <""jahbur"@oohay.co.uk (rever" wrote:

> Hi Eric
>
> I have had the same issue with PP2007 since it came out. Manipulating
> shapes takes longer and longer each time code runs UNLESS you manipulate
> something manually on the presentation/slide. This can simply be typing
> one character into the Notes Pane. If that miraculously speeds up your
> code, then you've the same issue I have. It is also in PP2010 and I've
> 'sent a frown' to Microsoft, and posted here...
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/powerpoint/thread/5761df91-64a2-49e1-9d4c-1dcafaee9c83
>
> ....but with no luck so far.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> James
>
>
> EricG wrote:
> > I have a fairly simple VBA PowerPoint tool that reads in some data from an
> > Excel worksheet and "charts" it by creating a new PowerPoint slide and then
> > adding drawing objects, text boxes, etc to the slide, creating a simple
> > schedule chart. I usually have an Excel file with two or three worksheets
> > that I want to chart, and run times are generally very quick. However...
> >
> > I recently discovered that if I run this routine through several times in a
> > row during a single run (using the same Excel data for each run and creating
> > exactly the same slide each run), then the run time to create a new slide
> > increases dramatically as the VBA runs. An example is given below, where I
> > ran my routine 40 times, creating 40 new slides (starting with a blank PPT
> > presentation). The final slide took sixteen (16) times longer to draw than
> > the first!
> >
> > I can't tell if this is a VBA issue or a PowerPoint issue. My code is long,
> > ugly and not worth posting here. Do any of you have any ideas that would
> > explain why the per-slide run times increase so much when I run through the
> > loop 40 times versus one or two times?
> >
> > Time to Create Slide (sec):
> > 1.48
> > 2.11
> > 2.34
> > 2.67
> > 2.84
> > 3.11
> > 3.31
> > 3.62
> > 4.03
> > 4.39
> > 4.64
> > 5.01
> > 5.34
> > 5.79
> > 7.04
> > 7.65
> > 8.37
> > 8.70
> > 9.15
> > 11.29
> > 11.39
> > 12.74
> > 13.52
> > 13.85
> > 14.33
> > 15.32
> > 15.75
> > 16.55
> > 17.41
> > 18.24
> > 18.71
> > 19.32
> > 19.84
> > 20.95
> > 21.26
> > 21.71
> > 22.16
> > 22.91
> > 23.62
> > 24.01
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Eric
> >
> .
>
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