ID: Q196810
The information in this article applies to:
When you save or export your PowerPoint slides that contain several pictures inserted by either Microsoft Clip Gallery, a file, or the clipboard in any graphics format (WMF, GIF, PNG, or JPEG), these pictures may appear to be scattered about randomly on the resulting exported graphics.
Note: The following steps pertain to all vector objcets within the slide you are attepting to export as a graphic file.
1. Open the Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation from which you are
attempting to export the slides as graphic images.
2. Switch to the slide you wish to export.
3. Select a vector image on your slide.
4. On the Draw menu, click Ungroup.
NOTE: If the Ungroup command is unavailable, then the selection is not
a vector graphic.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all vector images on your slide are
ungrouped.
6. Export the slide.
To group all of the images on the slide, follow these steps:
1. Open the Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation from which you are
attempting to export the slides as graphic images.
2. Switch to the slide you want to export.
3. From the Edit menu, click Select All.
4. From the Draw menu, click Group.
5. Export the slide.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: ppt ppt97 ppt8 8.0 power point powerpnt slide exporting exported JPEG shifted moved different organized disorganized rearranged modified dropped shifter left right up down top bottom screen lost
Keywords : kbbuglist
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbnofixLast Reviewed: December 8, 1998