Powerpoint For Mac Won't Let Me Save

By Although the actual number of things that can go wrong when working with PowerPoint is probably closer to 10,000, the situation is rarely hopeless. Here are some possible stumbles.. And some ways to pick yourself up and get your presentation started again. I can’t find my file You spent hours polishing that presentation, and now you can’t find the file.

You know that you saved it, but it’s not there! The problem is probably one of two things: Either you saved the file in a different folder, or you used a different filename to save it than you intended. The solution? The most likely way to find your presentation is to check the list on the right side of the File menu. This list includes the presentations you’ve most recently worked on.

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If you don’t find the presentation in that list, summon the Open dialog box (choose File→Open) and then click Recent Places. This displays a larger list of recently used files. As a last resort, use the Windows search feature (on the Start menu) to find the presentation. I’ve run out of hard drive space Nothing is more frustrating than creating a fancy PowerPoint presentation and then discovering that you’re completely out of hard drive space. Open the Windows Explorer window (choose Start→Computer) and rummage through your hard drive, looking for files you don’t need.

Delete enough files to free up a few megabytes and then press Alt+Tab to move back to PowerPoint and save your file. If your hard drive is full and you can’t find more than a few files to delete, try double-clicking the Recycle Bin icon and choosing File→Empty Recycle Bin. This often frees up additional hard drive space. If that doesn’t work, choose Start→All Programs→Accessories→System Tools→Disk Cleanup. The Disk Cleanup program scans your hard drive for unnecessary files and offers to remove them for you.

It can often free up many megabytes of hard drive space. If you often run out of hard drive space, consider adding a larger hard drive to your computer. Nowadays, you can buy a 500GB hard drive for less than $100. If the thought of opening up your computer and installing a hard drive causes you to break out in a sweat, you can also get external drives that plug in to your computer’s USB port.

I’ve run out of memory Many people still use computers with only 1GB of internal memory. Although you can run PowerPoint with as little as 1GB of memory, it will run much better if you have at least 4GB of RAM. The additional memory helps your computer to not give up and crash from the overload of open applications. Memory is cheap! Why not make sure you have enough? PowerPoint has vanished! You’re working at your computer, minding your own business, when suddenly — whoosh!

— PowerPoint disappears. What happened? Most likely, you clicked some area outside the PowerPoint window or you pressed Alt+Tab or Alt+Esc, which whisks you away to another program. To get PowerPoint back, press Alt+Tab. You might have to press Alt+Tab several times before PowerPoint comes back to life. PowerPoint can also vanish into thin air if you use a screen-saver program.

Or, you save a text-only document from Microsoft Word and when you later open it from the Finder, it launches TextEdit instead. It’s happened to all of us: A colleague sends an image that you’d like to edit, but when you double-click on it, Preview launches instead of Adobe Photoshop. Now, native documents (that is,.doc or.docx files for Word,.indd files for Adobe InDesign, and so on) still open in their parent applications, but common file types—for instance,.txt,.jpg, and.html—open in more generalized applications, such as Apple’s TextEdit, Preview, or Safari. Before OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), when you double-clicked on a file it would always open in the application that created it.