I have a PP presentation in version 2016 that simply won't save to video, either MP4 or Windows Media File format (.wmv). It saves to PP Show fine, and there doesn't appear to be anything functionally wrong with the presentation. However, the progress bar never moves when saving to video, even if I let it save overnight. No error message or anything. I've done this a hundred times successfully before so I don't see what is wrong with this instance. So, are there any troubleshooting tools I can run that would point me in the right direction? Or nuke the planet from space and start building the presentation over from scratch?

Trying Leawo Power Point to Video converter and it's progress bar doesn't move, either. If there's a copyrighted photo with some type of copy guard here that won't allow the video to create I wish it would at least kick out an error message letting me know this so I can try something else. I'll just have to delete one pic at a time from the show and when it successfully saves to video that's the one which is copyright protected. First time I ever saw this one.



Thank you,

Chris

I recreated the slide form scratch and it saved to video. However now I want to append two presentations to make one. I need to find the Slide Finder Dialog Box, but the directions I found say this:
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Combine presentations

• Open the presentation you want to add slides to.
  Tip If you are merging two presentations with an unequal number of slides, open the presentation with the greatest number of slides.
• On the Slides tab in normal view, click the slide thumbnail that you want the added slides to follow.
• On the Insert menu, click Slides from Files.
• Click Browse to look for the file; in the Browse dialog box, select the file, and then click Open.
• To preserve the current formatting of the slides you want to copy, in the lower corner of the Slide Finderdialog box, select the Keep source formatting check box. (When this check box is cleared, the copied slides assume the formatting of the slide they're inserted after.)
• Do one of the following:
  • To insert selected slides, click the slides you want to insert, and then click Insert.
  • To insert all the slides, click Insert All.Before clicking Close in the dialog box, you can browse for other presentations and insert more slides.

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• I cannot find this Slide Finder dialog box and there's no Slides Form Files command in power Point 2016 under the Insert Menu? Anybody have any input? Thanks!

In the New Slide Menu in HOME choose "Reuse Slides". The instructions you have are for version 2003.

It would be a lot better to start a new thread with a descriptive name!

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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.