Microsoft KB Archive/69288

Unusual Screen Redraw at the Limits of Coordinate Space PSS ID Number: Q69288 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

If you create an exceptionally large word-processing box that extends far beyond the limits of the slide image area, you may run into the boundaries of the coordinate space for PowerPoint for Windows.

When this occurs you will experience anomalous screen redraw behavior when editing the text (for example, characters stacking up on top of each other and text redraw taking a very long time and being hard to see).

More Information:

This problem can sometimes occur when you import a large outline containing many level-1 headings (lines with a zero-level indent). The first slide of a presentation created by importing an outline contains a listing of the titles of each slide in the presentation. The word-processing box on this first slide can easily go beyond the slide image area. A very large presentation created in this manner can make the list of titles on the first slide extend so far beyond the slide image area that it encounters the boundaries of the coordinate space for PowerPoint for Windows.

Solution
To avoid this, set a style with a very small point size as your default text style before importing the outline. The imported body text will then automatically adopt the default style. If it is in a small point size, the imported outline’s body text will be less likely to run off the slide area to such an extent that it encounters the limits of the PowerPoint coordinate space.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.