Huge delay in Opening Presentation

Had this problem for a few years now finally decided to seek help. Some resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open regardless of actual size of presentation. I work in the conference industry doing speaker support and occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or signature in an image within the presentation can cause this delay by trying to access the Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the souce. A simple fix I have found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and delete the original but this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or images in the presentation. the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active network connection the file will open immediately but will delay again if I plug in the network cable. Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated as I rely on using the network to push presentations to up to 16 consecutive rooms.

Cheers James

Copying and pasting images from the Internet can cause this. It is always
desirable to save an image to the hard drive and then using Insert Picture
Picture from file.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"James Bishop" wrote in message
...
Had this problem for a few years now finally decided to seek help. Some
resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open regardless of actual size of
presentation. I work in the conference industry doing speaker support and
occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or signature in an image
within the presentation can cause this delay by trying to access the
Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the souce. A simple fix I have
found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and delete the original but
this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or images in the presentation.
the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active network connection the
file will open immediately but will delay again if I plug in the network cable.
Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated as I rely on
using the network to push presentations to up to 16 consecutive rooms.

Cheers James

In article , James Bishop
wrote:
Had this problem for a few years now finally decided to seek help. Some
resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open regardless of actual size of
presentation. I work in the conference industry doing speaker support and
occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or signature in an image
within the presentation can cause this delay by trying to access the
Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the souce. A simple fix I
have found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and delete the
original but this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or images in the
presentation. the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active network
connection the file will open immediately but will delay again if I plug in
the network cable.

That makes a weird kind of sense, actually. This used to happen with some
versions of Acrobat and may still happen with PPT: if there was a file on the
MRU (most recently used) list that resided on a network drive, the app would
look for it and wait until the network timeout had elapsed before moving on to
the next file on the list. Sounds like PPT's doing the same with your files.

I'd guess it's something like this:

PowerPoint tries to connect to the internet unexpectedly when opening
presentations
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00613.htm

What makes it weirder is that the behavior described there happens on some
systems and not others. I've never been able to provoke it here, for example.




Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated as I rely
on using the network to push presentations to up to 16 consecutive rooms.

Cheers James


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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
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Thanks for the replies folks, at least now I know others have experienced this problem. Unfortunately I cannot instruct Presenters to follow rules on how they obtain the images as in most cases I only see them on the day of their presentation and average about 300 Presenters a week over 2-3 separate conferences.

I have had 2 different types of this problem, the first that actually shows the roll-over as shown by your link Steve and also another where no roll-over is present or hyperlink for that matter, can be an absolute mongrel locating the offending image with over a hundred slides and sometimes 20 odd images per slide. Process of elimination.

Was hoping for a quick fix where I could disable Powerpoint from allowing anything to seek when I have an active network connection which is most cases.

If you are interested I can email a presentation that I have narrowed down to a single image on a slide, this is of the roll-over variety.

Incidently I have been running Office XP 2002 and Office 2000 when I have had these problems.

Cheers

James

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article , James Bishop
wrote:
Had this problem for a few years now finally decided to seek help. Some
resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open regardless of actual size of
presentation. I work in the conference industry doing speaker support and
occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or signature in an image
within the presentation can cause this delay by trying to access the
Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the souce. A simple fix I
have found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and delete the
original but this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or images in the
presentation. the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active network
connection the file will open immediately but will delay again if I plug in
the network cable.

That makes a weird kind of sense, actually. This used to happen with some
versions of Acrobat and may still happen with PPT: if there was a file on the
MRU (most recently used) list that resided on a network drive, the app would
look for it and wait until the network timeout had elapsed before moving on to
the next file on the list. Sounds like PPT's doing the same with your files.

I'd guess it's something like this:

PowerPoint tries to connect to the internet unexpectedly when opening
presentations
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00613.htm

What makes it weirder is that the behavior described there happens on some
systems and not others. I've never been able to provoke it here, for example.




Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated as I rely
on using the network to push presentations to up to 16 consecutive rooms.

Cheers James


--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

If you are interested I can email a presentation that I have narrowed down to
a single image on a slide, this is of the roll-over variety.

Yes, I'd like to see it. Email to steve atsign pptools dot com and please
remember to include a bit of description in the body of the email ... it's
unwise to trust my memory. ;-)

Copy paste from one of the posts in this thread should do it.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com
================================================

Thanks for your concern Scott

Sadly these presentations are not mine in fact they never
are... I am the Audio Visual Technician in the preparation
room who has to check these and link them to the title
slides and network them to the rooms. Most of the web
images I see are in fact the sponsors and product logos,
all above board I'm Sorry.

But then we all see the tacky images that unfortunately
find their way into presentations that originated as some
joke email that wasn't funny to start with. Right up there
with the generic Car Brake .wav file.

Cheers

James


-----Original Message-----
hi james,
this is your conscience speaking....i hate to be the one
to say this,
but i hope that the images that you are copying from the
internet and
using within your presentation are done so with the
authors
permission?

Scott Harvey,
www.123powerpoint.com

http://www.123Powerpoint.com | PowerPoint templates,
PowerPoint
backgrounds, photo library, fonts, background music,
sound effects,
and presentation services.

"Sonia" wrote in message
...
Copying and pasting images from the Internet can cause
this. It is always
desirable to save an image to the hard drive and then
using Insert Picture
Picture from file.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"James Bishop" wrote in message
news:F785A05F-2DB1-49A3-A7C0-
...
Had this problem for a few years now finally decided
to seek help. Some
resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open
regardless of actual size of
presentation. I work in the conference industry doing
speaker support and
occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or
signature in an image
within the presentation can cause this delay by trying
to access the
Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the
souce. A simple fix I have
found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and
delete the original but
this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or
images in the presentation.
the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active
network connection the
file will open immediately but will delay again if I
plug in the network cable.
Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly
appreciated as I rely on
using the network to push presentations to up to 16
consecutive rooms.

Cheers James
.

But then we all see the tacky images that unfortunately
find their way into presentations that originated as some
joke email that wasn't funny to start with. Right up there
with the generic Car Brake .wav file.

That was a nice laugh g.


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Technical Specialist, PowerPoint Live
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"James Bishop" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your concern Scott

Sadly these presentations are not mine in fact they never
are... I am the Audio Visual Technician in the preparation
room who has to check these and link them to the title
slides and network them to the rooms. Most of the web
images I see are in fact the sponsors and product logos,
all above board I'm Sorry.

But then we all see the tacky images that unfortunately
find their way into presentations that originated as some
joke email that wasn't funny to start with. Right up there
with the generic Car Brake .wav file.

Cheers

James


-----Original Message-----
hi james,
this is your conscience speaking....i hate to be the one
to say this,
but i hope that the images that you are copying from the
internet and
using within your presentation are done so with the
authors
permission?

Scott Harvey,
www.123powerpoint.com

http://www.123Powerpoint.com | PowerPoint templates,
PowerPoint
backgrounds, photo library, fonts, background music,
sound effects,
and presentation services.

"Sonia" wrote in message
...
Copying and pasting images from the Internet can cause
this. It is always
desirable to save an image to the hard drive and then
using Insert Picture
Picture from file.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"James Bishop" wrote in message
news:F785A05F-2DB1-49A3-A7C0-
...
Had this problem for a few years now finally decided
to seek help. Some
resentation can take up to 1 minute or so to open
regardless of actual size of
presentation. I work in the conference industry doing
speaker support and
occasionally get this problem, it seems that a tag or
signature in an image
within the presentation can cause this delay by trying
to access the
Internet/Intranet but have not been able to find the
souce. A simple fix I have
found is to do a "PrintScreen" and paste the image and
delete the original but
this is not easy if there is a lot of animations or
images in the presentation.
the starngest thing is that if I do not have an active
network connection the
file will open immediately but will delay again if I
plug in the network cable.
Any assistance on fixing this problem would be greatly
appreciated as I rely on
using the network to push presentations to up to 16
consecutive rooms.

Cheers James
.