Microsoft KB Archive/285553

= Black flash before a movie runs when you view a PowerPoint presentation in Internet Explorer =

Article ID: 285553

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285553





SYMPTOMS
When you create a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint and view the presentation as a Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer, any slide that contains an inserted movie flashes a black screen for about one second before the movie starts to play.

If you click to clear the Play animations check box on the Advanced tab in the Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer (click Internet Options on the Tools menu), the slide with the inserted movie still flashes black before the slide appears, but now for only about a half-second.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Internet Explorer loads the entire movie into a cache before it starts to play the movie. The screen turns black momentarily while the movie is loaded into the cache.

Even if Internet Explorer does not play the movie, it still loads the movie into the cache.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

For more information about other differences between a PowerPoint presentation and a presentation viewed as a Web page, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

285590 Animations in PowerPoint presentations are displayed differently in Internet Explorer than in PowerPoint

Additional query words: PPT ppt2007 ppt2003 ppt2002

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB285553

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