Ever since I picked up my new Dell M1210 laptop with Vista Home, I have had nothing but problems with Power Point 2007. My main use for the laptop is doing presentations. Biggest challenge is imbedded videos. WMF files will error out and shut down the PPT. Other types will tend to play audio with no picture. I have loaded new codecs, tried various support lines. No one has had a solution. Any ideas?? (By the way, I can play all of the videos outside of power point with no problem)

If you don't get any solutions in this forum, try this one:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...

Thanks for your suggestion. Have made duplicate post in that forum. Will keep my fingers crossed. This has been a very frustrating problem. It has crashed more than once in front of a group.

re: It has crashed more than once in front of a group.

My team does retirement planning workshops - adult-ed type classes - as well as many, many luncheons presentations throughout the year.

We use PowerPoint to create the presentations and then print out the slides on transparencies and use two "old-fashion" overhead projectors.

Other than a blown bulb, which takes nothing more than a flip of a lever to fix, we have never had a presentation "crash" in over 10 years - thousands of hours of presentations without a single crash, as well as the ability to show 2 slides at a time and go back and forth to any given slide at any time - either when we want to or at the request of a workshop participant.

We occasionally have guest speakers who snicker at our old technology. Then they set up their laptops and high-tech digital projectors, only to have the system crash, or the projector die mid-presentation - or even before they start.

That's when we snicker, but also have to make apologies to the audience, since ultimately it is my team that is responsible for the session. A single crashed presentation could cost us thousands of dollars in new business, so we'll stick with the old yet never-fail technology.