Yeah, I saw that later and was able to piece together my presentations. As for why the original wouldn't save to video I don't know but I recreated it from scratch. I wrote down all the animation timings and adjusted where necessary. Figure it would be easier and cheaper than to pay a Microsoft software architect $100 an hour for two weeks to pore over the millions of lines of coding in the .pptx file to narrow down the offending segments of bits... I still have the original slide that won't copy so maybe 10 years from now there'll be an app I can import it into and it do a scan on a bit level and could find exactly why it won't copy with a detailed explanation and equally detailed resolution.