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Powerpoint has begun to crash
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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My wife has been working on a Powerpoint presentation on her iMac G5. Everything was operating smoothly, but now the application continues to crash. It's part of the Office 2004 Suite. Anybody have any suggestions?
It's reminiscent of the memory shortage problems back in the pre-OS X days. You no longer have to allot additional memory to specific applications in OS X, do you?
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Originally Posted by Buck_W 
It's reminiscent of the memory shortage problems back in the pre-OS X days. You no longer have to allot additional memory to specific applications in OS X, do you?
No, nothing like that. 
It's definitely a problem with PowerPoint. I haven't used 2004, but Office X had serious crash issues, especially with some fonts. You might have to try opening it in Keynote instead (which is far superior to PPT anyway).
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As Haddock said, there is absolutely nothing like classic style static memory allocation in OS X. Did you trash the preferences? Can you post a crash log?
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Is it all presentations loaded in PowerPoint that cases a crash, or just the one particular that your wife was working on? What happens if you make a new presentation?
Its possible a corrupted picture file or font she put in the presentation is causing the crash. A corruption in the document itself could also be the culprit. Do you have a backup to try?
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Thanks for the responses. I think it's probably a corrupted file within the presentation. She is using some educational templates that were created on a PC. When she creates her own presentations in PP, there is no problem. I've suggested that she use Keynote (which I use regularly and exclusively), but she's more familiar with PP.
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