office 2007
vista ultimate

whenever I'm in powerpoint 07 and working within an excel object (charts) powerpoint freezes. any one had this problem/solution. i've googled and haven't found a fix yet.

6/12/2009 1:38:27 PM

Any errors showing up in the Application Event Log?

How long have you let it freeze before giving up?

6/12/2009 1:56:31 PM

Quote :

"ID: 3, Application Name: Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Application Version: 12.0.6500.5000, Microsoft Office Version: 12.0.6425.1000. This session lasted 844 seconds with 780 seconds of active time. This session ended with a hang."

a bunch of these information logs

Quote :

"ID: 1, Application Name: Microsoft Office Excel, Application Version: 12.0.6504.5001, Microsoft Office Version: 12.0.6425.1000. This session lasted 200 seconds with 60 seconds of active time. This session ended with a crash."

a few of these error warnings

the first two times it hung up, I waited about 10 and 5 min, since, I just restart powerpoint immediately.

6/12/2009 2:03:46 PM

I just created a new presentation and can dick around with a chart without issue.

Do you have the same problem with a new presentation? Are you inserting an existing chart object?

6/12/2009 2:13:25 PM

this was a file from scratch. i copied/pasted from excel as that worked fine for me in the past.

i've run the office diagnostics, which came up with nothing. i've repaired office as well, but that didn't fix anything...

[Edited on June 12, 2009 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

6/12/2009 2:29:27 PM

How about a new chart? Just insert the chart and change the data around...still breaks?

6/12/2009 4:14:03 PM

Uninstall Office completely. Uninstall any office addins. Reboot and reinstall Office. Apply all the updates until there are no updates left.

Though it sounds like you've got something weird in your excel data.

6/12/2009 4:54:34 PM

i'll try that this weekend.

6/12/2009 5:45:50 PM

i'll try the reinstall this weekend, hopefully.

6/12/2009 5:46:38 PM

^
Agree with. Are you running Office 2007 SP2?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953195

6/12/2009 5:56:03 PM

ya know, I don't actually recall if I installed SP2 on that machine or not. I don't see why I wouldn't have, but I don't recall doing it...

dammit, meant to put those files on a network drive to test from another machine... guess that'll happen later

[Edited on June 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM. Reason : .]

6/12/2009 6:20:19 PM