Since I installed Vista, I've been unable to open PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 for
more than a few seconds without it hanging. I've opened it in safe mode, gone
through Detect and Repaire twice, rebooted, turned the computer off and on.
All this sometimes helps for a few seconds, but then it hangs again.
Restarting the program right away doesn't work-it just hangs immediately.

I'm having a similar problem with Word (also 2007 Beta 2), but not as bad.
That one is hanging with a "Searching for printer. Press Esc to Cancel"
message. It never finds the printer, pressing Esc doesn't do anything. But by
renaming the document I've been able to actually work in Word.



But PowerPoint isn't working at all. Does anyone have any suggestions?

It worked fine yesterday in XP.

There have been problems with the beta office when upgrading from XP.

Try to uninstall it, and reinstall it, and see if it persists.

"Ellen Finkelstein" wrote:

> Since I installed Vista, I've been unable to open PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 for
> more than a few seconds without it hanging. I've opened it in safe mode, gone
> through Detect and Repaire twice, rebooted, turned the computer off and on.
> All this sometimes helps for a few seconds, but then it hangs again.
> Restarting the program right away doesn't work-it just hangs immediately.
>
> I'm having a similar problem with Word (also 2007 Beta 2), but not as bad.
> That one is hanging with a "Searching for printer. Press Esc to Cancel"
> message. It never finds the printer, pressing Esc doesn't do anything. But by
> renaming the document I've been able to actually work in Word.
>
> But PowerPoint isn't working at all. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> It worked fine yesterday in XP.

it is a good idea to install the video card drivers anyway, but that
"shouldn't" be the issue. Give it a hook, as with a beta, it literally could
be anything causing the issue.

It is interesting that last known good config works on this though, I will
try to find something concrete for you.

"Ellen Finkelstein" wrote:

> Did you mean uninstall and reinstall Office? I did that. It didn't help.
>
> What seemed to help was to use the Last Known Good Configuration. However,
> I'm afraid to turn off my computer, now.
>
> Are there graphics card issues? For example, NVIDIA has a Vista 2 driver
> update available. I haven't installed it yet, though.
>
> Ellen
>
> "Andrew" wrote:
>
> > There have been problems with the beta office when upgrading from XP.
> >
> > Try to uninstall it, and reinstall it, and see if it persists.
> >
> > "Ellen Finkelstein" wrote:
> >
> > > Since I installed Vista, I've been unable to open PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 for
> > > more than a few seconds without it hanging. I've opened it in safe mode, gone
> > > through Detect and Repaire twice, rebooted, turned the computer off and on.
> > > All this sometimes helps for a few seconds, but then it hangs again.
> > > Restarting the program right away doesn't work-it just hangs immediately.
> > >
> > > I'm having a similar problem with Word (also 2007 Beta 2), but not as bad.
> > > That one is hanging with a "Searching for printer. Press Esc to Cancel"
> > > message. It never finds the printer, pressing Esc doesn't do anything. But by
> > > renaming the document I've been able to actually work in Word.
> > >
> > > But PowerPoint isn't working at all. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > >
> > > It worked fine yesterday in XP.