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Powerpoint in Office 98 Very frustrating!!
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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Could someone please tell me why after allocating as much 250MB of RAM to Office 98's Powerpoint I still get memory errors every time I try to run a Powerpoint presentation?? I have tried getting answers from Microsoft, but unfortunately they have not been very helpful...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!! I'm running a G4 tower (400Mhz sawtooth, 320mb ram, DVD-RAM drive, Western Digital 80 GB HD, Orange SCSI/serial board, 48x CDRW, and ATI Rage Pro 16mb video card).
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Edmond, OK USA
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Is this on Mac OS X? I am pretty sure that Sawtooth machines supported 9 and X.
Some programs used main memory instead of the allocated zone, so allocating larger and larger chunks would actually degrade performance. VPC used to do this if I remember correctly. Allocating more memory to the program actually made LESS available because it didn't use that area.
I can't help beyond that. I haven't used Office 98 in a while. Maybe there is something huge embedded in the presentation that is taking up RAM?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: London, UK
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Try removing the Microsoft related extensions in the OS9 System Folder>Extensions folder (use Extensions Manager). When you launch Office98 again, it will re-install them anew. This can sometimes resolve issues with Office98.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Madison, WI
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Originally posted by JKT:
Try removing the Microsoft related extensions in the OS9 System Folder>Extensions folder (use Extensions Manager). When you launch Office98 again, it will re-install them anew. This can sometimes resolve issues with Office98.
There's also an "Office First Run" application somewhere in the MS Office folder that will accomplish the same thing, i.e., repair corrupted extensions.
PowerPoint 98 used to be really bad at handling embedded graphics, IIRC. If you have a large embedded file, and if it's anythng other than a JPEG or GIF, that might cause the memory errors.
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Cambridge
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Also, try deleting the preferences.
PowerPoint Preferences
Office First Run Cache
Carbon Registration Database (this might be OS X only, I don't remember).
Office Preferences
If any others sound good, delete them too. That's the beauty of OS 9 -- you could just go around deleting files and look like an expert. I almost miss it sometimes. . .
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