Also, take a look at our PowerPoint masterclasses. They will help you keep up-to-date with PowerPoint hacks and shortcuts to make life just that little bit easier. Solution for you: Try and reduce the size of your file by following our guide to compressing your PowerPoint presentation. At the last minute all you have to do is right click and select Change picture to swap the placeholder out for your big daddy. If you add in a smaller image as a placeholder you can even animate it. If there’s no way of changing the content, a nice trick is to add a placeholder whilst you work on the presentation. If you’re using a video, add it at the last minute. Solution for your computer: Try to reduce the size of images where possible, or convert. Whatever it is, moving it around PowerPoint is taking up a lot of your RAM. Reason: You probably have a mighty large file in your presentation. This is the kind of crash that retains the last autosaved version of your presentation, so all is not lost. Type of crash: Semi-transparent screen, ‘PowerPoint has experienced a problem and has to close’, with a spinning circle of doom. The question is, did you hit save? Despite feeling that your world came crashing down with PowerPoint, there is hope! Read on to discover some common reasons PowerPoint crashes, and what – if anything – you can do to stop it. You’ve been working on a presentation for hours and suddenly you’re stopped in your tracks by a pop-up box.
