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User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008 Remove the file: PowerPoint Toolbars (12) This crash is a persistent and dangerous problem. If I am working in a PP file, and then open the Drawing toolbar, PP freezes. If I hadn't save before opening the PP Drawing toolbar, all my work is lost. Does anyone from MS read these postings? Please fix this problem. Yes, I submitted this feedback to MS. Thanks/Roger/ Roger S. Cohen <[email protected]> wrote on 6/25/10 10:26 AM: > I have a terrible bug in MS PowerPoint 2008. Trying to display the Drawing > toolbar causes PP to freeze every time. > > I find the bug reported all over the Net, but no answers posted, except for > one MS MVP who states "you users won't cooperate." > > > MS PowerPoint 2008 for Mac, all updates > OS 10.6.4, all updates > MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo > > In any view, if I select... > > View > Toolbars > Drawing > > ...PowerPoint freezes with the SPOD. There is no way to recover. It > happens every time. All other MS PowerPoint 2008 toolbars seem to work > fine. > > I deleted the ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Powerpoint.plist > > ...restarted, logged in, logged out, etc. but that doesn't help. I also > removed all caches and restarted, but that doesn't help. > > I can not find an answer to the question in any postings. Any help greatly > appreciated. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Roger S. Cohen > President > Cohen International > 3 Main Street, Suite 602 > Nyack, NY 10960 USA > > [email protected] > http://www.rogercohen.com > > Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 > Cell: +1 (845) 304-3998 > > > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List information: http://nine.pairlist.net/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen President Cohen International 3 Main Street, Suite 602 Nyack, NY 10960 USA [email protected] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Cell: +1 (845) 304-3998 -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://nine.pairlist.net/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
