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Edited by WebGenii on 25-Apr-02 22:07.

jscher2000,

Sorry for taking a while to get back to you. The SendTo command will send the ppt image to a NEW word document. So even when you leave the cursor where you’d like the image to appear, a new document will pop up and the image will be there. Of course, there’s always the Insert | File solution to put together the document you’re working on with the new document so as to get the image inserted right where you wanted, but it lacks consistency. It definetly SHOULD be easier to get the job done.

A web search brought up many results, among which this seemed to have tackled it

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00052.htm%5B/url%5D

But it didn’t work for me – I tried exporting with 25%, 66% and 200% View sizes and they were all the same. I’ll keep searching, maybe I come up with something interesting.

Thanks for the macro. Though I don’t understand the VBA code (I’m not much into VBA), it did convert the ppt image to an image

Hey Baruguru.

Thanks for your advice. I use this workaround whenever I can, ie, when the area I want to export viewed at 100 % does not exceed the screen size. If it exceeds the screen size, the task would require further editing I want to avoid. Maybe there’s some kind of connection between PPT and MS Photo Editor and you can tweak the second so the first will export with better resolution, or maybe another hack… I dunno.

Thanks anyway!

I’ll try it and let you know if it works.

Anyway, if anyone knows of an easier way to get the job done, I’m right here . I think there has to be a third party program to lock folders (other than Folder Guard), though I’m not sure about a free ver.

Thanks a lot

I’m not sure about what you mean by “dual boot”… When I boot, a black screen appears for me to choose which OS I want to run (W98 or W2K). If I choose W2K, what shoud I do next? Lock the folders? When I reboot and start in W98, will the protection take effect here too?

Thanks

Sorry, local folders and W98.
I also have W2K but didn’t take to it because of the oh so many programs that were available for W98 but weren’t for W2k (at the time I installed the latter). So I have my PC fully customised for W98 and runnin’… Does W2k have an option to protect/unprotect or hide/unhide folders?

Phil, Val, thanks a lot. Guess I’ll steer clear from Fast Save. I even had a toolbar button for “Save As” with a smiley button and in the description field I wrote “&S” so it would show an underlined “S” beside the smiley, and every time I hit Alt + S the “Save As” dialog box would show. That way I kept my files from “bloating”. But there’s no need for this workaround any more – the Lounge tackled it right where it hurts.

See ya around!

A year or so ago I noticed that some not very complex word files I was working on ranged from 3-6 Mb and realised that if I used “save as” instead of “save”, the big files would turn into normal, say, 300 Kb ones.
Are this oversized files the result of what you call “appending changes” by the Fast Save feature?
Does “Save As” skip this feature and just save the entire document from scratch?

Thanks

Hi Van,

As I said in my last reply to Phil, a friend worked things out for me. Anyway, before he came up with the solution, I noticed I had “Fast Saves” turned on. I turned it off but it didn’t make any difference.
I just wanted to know what use it is of. What good/wrong will it do if I turn it on again?

Thanks

Phil, Van,

Thanks a lot for your help. Someone told me a solution (or at least something that makes word work) for the problem. And it was sooooooo simple!!!!!! Just go to Tools | Options, click on the Orthography and Grammar tab and uncheck the “Check grammar while writing” checkbox. That did perfectly. Word has never been this fast.
What I still can’t figure, however, is why the problem became gradually worse. The last days two days it was a real pain. That’s why it took me so long to get back to you (had to make up for all the lost time with word).

Thanks again

Hi, Van.

I keep my PC clear of TMPs, CHKs, OLDs, and BAKs. Not that I will delete all of the last three types, just the ones I know that are useless.
Regarding PC crushes… well, Win98 crashed so many times and so often… I know many of the crashes were due to Word, but I can’t tell how many or why. What’s worse, I don’t remember when this problem started happening – maybe I had it from the moment I was given this pc (at work), but as I thought there was no solution to it, I didn’t pay any attention… until I found the Lounge. From then on, I started paying more attention to every detail thinking things could be improved, and so far, facts have proved me right .
Anyway, I don’t know when it started, but I know it’s getting worse. It’s never taken me sooo long to dispatch a commercial proposal.

Any other clues?

Thanks a lot

Neither of the documents I use have TOCs, so if repaginating refers only to them, it doesn’t seem a likely cause.

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Wrath quencher:

TODAY IT WAS WORSE THAN EVER!!!! Ask my keyboard how hard my fingertips (and, eventually, knuckles) stroke.

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Sorry, needed that. Back to it, I did terminate every application other than Winword, Explorer, and Systray, just as you said, but this didn’t seem to have made any difference. Word would go “Freeze!” whenever it pleased. Just hate its “you-got-one-sec-write-sum’n-if-you-can” fashion.
PDF maker is a part of the Adobe Acrobat Suite (at least in ver. 4.0), and the template adds another toolbar (PDF) with just one button, to create the PDF files right away. I did unload it but didn’t work either.

Phil, thanks for your help anyway.

Any other suggestions will be very welcome.

Phil,

1) It doesn’t happen with certain documents. It will happen randomly during any session with word. These documents don’t have complex tables, but what do you mean by “something that is repaginating a long document”?
2) My OS is Win98. I’ll try these and let you know the outcome.
3) The only macro in Normal.dot has one line to paste unformatted text (revealed to me by a Woody’s issue). Anyway, I have added the code just recently and this problem has been going on since a big while now. The other documents don’t have macros. As for the add-ins, yes, I have PDFMaker.dot checked. I don’t know if this plug-in may lead to this chaos (not so, but reeeeeeally annoying) .

Thanks for your advice

I dunno much about registry hacking, though I’d like no know more. Now that I think of it, something similar happened to my Office Shortcut Bar even before having this issue in windows. When I put too many shortcuts in it, the Icons would go crazy. Does it also have to do with an overwhelmed Icon Cache?

I can only bow…

Extra speed! Amazing!

The Baru Guru

Yup, you’re right. When I received the HTML mail with the “about: ” line in Outlook 97, the hyperlinked phrase would show in normal typing (no blue, underlined, “hot” font) and be followed by the expression . And the former Ol2000 link is gone in Ol97. Oh well. Guess I’ll get a life now

Thank you all very much