PPT not saving! HELP!

[Mikeak172]

I having been working on a presentation for about 3 hours and I am presenting it tomorrow. I have finished the powerpoint and I went to go save it. I select where I want to save it and it says "Press ESC to cancel saving this document". Then it pops up with "An error has occured while PowerPoint was saving this file." I have tried naming it something different, I have tried saving to a different hard drive/flash drive and it won't save. HELP PLEASE 

[Technomancer__]

open another PowerPoint

select the slides and copy paste them whole on the slide bar

then save from the other

[Mikeak172]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

open another PowerPoint

select the slides and copy paste them whole on the slide bar

then save from the other

Tried that, same thing happens

 

Also: Sometimes it says I don't have permission to access My Documents.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Mikeak172 said:

Tried that, same thing happens

 

Also: Sometimes it says I don't have permission to access My Documents.

try save to your drive root

and desktop

[Mikeak172]

it says I don't have access to save to C:/ and desktop produces same error

[DrMikeNZ]

Is PowerPoint activated? Was it a retail license or Office365?

If Office365 fails to dial home to check license validity, after a while it will deactivate and disable saving files. It should clearly say activation expired if this is the case though.

[Mikeak172]

it was a retail version of Office 2016

[TechQuest]

12 minutes ago, Mikeak172 said:

I having been working on a presentation for about 3 hours and I am presenting it tomorrow. I have finished the powerpoint and I went to go save it. I select where I want to save it and it says "Press ESC to cancel saving this document". Then it pops up with "An error has occured while PowerPoint was saving this file." I have tried naming it something different, I have tried saving to a different hard drive/flash drive and it won't save. HELP PLEASE 

Copy your original work and paste into new presentation,or might your hard/flash drive has damaged.Otherwise your work can be saved.

[Mikeak172]

1 minute ago, TechQuest said:

Copy your original work and paste into new presentation,or might your hard/flash drive has damaged.Otherwise your work can be saved.

Same error with the different file and I doubt that 2 SSDs, a HHD, and a flashdrive corrupted at the same time. I can also still access and save other files (.docx).

 

EDIT: I tried to create a new powerpoint without my presentations ( it was one slide and said "blah blah blah" ) and I was able to save it no problem. I have no idea what is going on.

[DrMikeNZ]

4 minutes ago, Mikeak172 said:

it was a retail version of Office 2016

Do you have issues with saving files with other programs (word, excel, notepad)?

[Mikeak172]

Just now, DrMikeNZ said:

Do you have issues with saving files with other programs (word, excel, notepad)?

no and I was able to save a different powerpoint just fine 

 

1 minute ago, Mikeak172 said:

Same error with the different file and I doubt that 2 SSDs, a HHD, and a flashdrive corrupted at the same time. I can also still access and save other files (.docx).

 

EDIT: I tried to create a new powerpoint without my presentations ( it was one slide and said "blah blah blah" ) and I was able to save it no problem. I have no idea what is going on.

 

[TechQuest]

2 minutes ago, Mikeak172 said:

Same error with the different file and I doubt that 2 SSDs, a HHD, and a flashdrive corrupted at the same time. I can also still access and save other files (.docx).

 

EDIT: I tried to create a new powerpoint without my presentations ( it was one slide and said "blah blah blah" ) and I was able to save it no problem. I have no idea what is going on.

I think is Windows glitch.

[DrMikeNZ]

Just now, Mikeak172 said:

no and I was able to save a different powerpoint just fine 

This is likely something corrupted in one of your slides. Copy the slides one at a time into the other presentation saving as you go.

[Mikeak172]

5 minutes ago, DrMikeNZ said:

This is likely something corrupted in one of your slides. Copy the slides one at a time into the other presentation saving as you go.

ok I got about half way through and then it wouldn't save. Is there a limit to the amount of "objects" (pictures, shapes, ect) that can be in a ppt

[DrMikeNZ]

Just now, Mikeak172 said:

ok I got about half way through and then it wouldn't save. Is there a limit to the amount of "objects" (pictures, shapes, ect) that can be in a ppt

How complex is your presentation? If you skip the slide where it stopped saving and carry on, can you save the rest of the document?

I hope it is just a single slide that is having issues.

[Mikeak172]

Just now, DrMikeNZ said:

How complex is your presentation? If you skip the slide where it stopped saving and carry on, can you save the rest of the document?

I hope it is just a single slide that is having issues.

It unfortunately isn't a single slide issue. I have about 10 slides, one after another, with +35 "Objects" each. I wonder if ppt can only handle so many objects before just kicking the bucket. I am moving each slide over as a picture ( right click > paste > picture rather than "keep source format" ) to see if that helps

 

[DrMikeNZ]

Just now, Mikeak172 said:

It unfortunately isn't a single slide issue. I have about 10 slides, one after another, with +35 "Objects" each. I wonder if ppt can only handle so many objects before just kicking the bucket. I am moving each slide over as a picture ( right click > paste > picture rather than "keep source format" ) to see if that helps

There are many different ways PowerPoint stores objects, and I can imagine too much complex data would eventually cause it to fail, and is likely the cause here. Converting to picture should get around this problem.

Can you save those other slides individually?

[Mikeak172]

1 minute ago, DrMikeNZ said:

There are many different ways PowerPoint stores objects, and I can imagine too much complex data would eventually cause it to fail, and is likely the cause here. Converting to picture should get around this problem.

Can you save those other slides individually?

So I was able to move every slide into a new PowerPoint using copy and paste as a Picture. It seems like PowerPoint was being overwhelmed by the amount of images that were being used in the presentation. By copying them as a picture, it reduced that amount of objects that had to be saved/stored and allowed the file to save.

 

27 minutes ago, TechQuest said:

Copy your original work and paste into new presentation,or might your hard/flash drive has damaged.Otherwise your work can be saved.

 

33 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

try save to your drive root

and desktop

Thank you everyone for your help!!   

[Jistin]

I have the same problem, tried moving slide and video in small amount to new presentation and its still hanging