PowerPoint from Office vX crashes under Leopard

On Jan 1, 2008 11:35 AM, David Laffitte <laffittecomputer.org> wrote:
> Hi, I just upgraded from an iMac G4 to iMac G5 Leopard 10.5.1. I am still going through apps to see what works and what doesn't.
>
> Powerpoint doesn't. I applied the most recent Microsoft patch to Office Vx (10.1.9). Excel and Word are fine.
>
> Powerpoint launches, puts up its menu bar and the normal Office select your starting point screen then crashes.

It seems to work fine with me. I had a Mac Cube G4 with Tiger that I
moved over to a G5 Mac Mini with Leopard, and everything seems to work
fine.

I suggest you checkout the Console application. Open the Console and
then open PowerPoint and see if any messages come across. Also check
out the System.log on the Console application as you open PowerPoint.
Sometimes a helpful message will appear that will lead you to the
problem.

For example, I had one where the wrong permission kept an application
from opening a needed file. It appeared that the application crashed,
but not before complaining about being unable to access this
particular file.

--
David Weintraub
qazwartgmail.com

> Powerpoint launches, puts up its menu bar and the normal Office select your
> starting point screen then crashes.

The first place I'd look is at your fopnts folder(s). Check for corrupt
fonts, or conflicting versions of the same fonts.

--
Barry Wainwright