PowerPoint 2010 keeps crashing

Same problem here. It took me a while to figure out this was an Apple / Boot Camp problem.

Any sense of when this might get fixed? I don't really have time to fumble around downgrading Boot Camp.

Adding fuel to the fire - exact same issue here. I have duplicated this with bootcamp 3.1 and 3.2 - and successfully removed bootcamp resolving the issue

MacBook Pro 15
OSX
Win7 64

My wife's new 13" MBP has this same issue. After the Boot Camp drivers updated to 3.2, Powerpoint 2010 crashes any time text is entered. The other Office apps work fine. Uninstalling "Bootcamp services" and rebooting solved the issue (along with disabling the laptop's function keys).

Dear Apple Management,

Please give your utmost attention to this. Currently, I uninstalled BootCamp to use my Powerpoint and re-install to do other work (that uses the Apple Functions).

I trust that this matter is looked into and can expect a fix by 1 Dec 2010. I do not wish to wait for Christmas to get this fix.

Regards,

SK Chin

skchin wrote:
Dear Apple Management,

Please give your utmost attention to this. Currently, I uninstalled BootCamp to use my Powerpoint and re-install to do other work (that uses the Apple Functions).

I trust that this matter is looked into and can expect a fix by 1 Dec 2010. I do not wish to wait for Christmas to get this fix.

Regards,

SK Chin

This is a user-to-user help forum. If you want to address Apple you should contact Apple. Use the Feedback link on Apple's site. Apple management does not frequent this forum so will not see your post.

Hi Bob,

Many thanks for the advise. Will drop a mail to Apple on this.

Regards,

SK Chin

This is happening to me as well. Please let us know what you find out.

Hey Guys,
I am having the same issue as well on multiple MBPs running BootCamp 3.2 software. Both Powerpoint 2007 and 2010 crash when I start trying. This is affecting close to 30 people in my office in SF. Please help and provide a fix.

Thanks!

At this time, the workaround is to uninstall bootcamp 3.2 from windows > control panel > uninstall programs > bootcamp services, then restart -> that will fix your powerpoint issue. It will create other issues like loss of functionality on trackpad/function keys that can be fixed by downloading bootcamp 3.0 from internet and installing it on windows. This is the best solution available at this time - I have tried all other combinations, and this workaround works fine.

Please do contact Apple directly and log this issue with them -> putting it on this chat board will not make them fix it permanently.

After finally finding this thread on the forum i was able to correct the PowerPoint problem by doing exactly what has been already stated. I deleted BootCamp services in Control Panel, used my Snow Leopard disk to reinstall version 3.0. I have successfully been able to use PPT since then on 3.0.

I then realized that I had not had the problem on another Mac (MacBook Pro versus Air) a bit of discovery found that the Air was running BootCamp 3.1. I have now used the Apple Software Update to bring the unit on 3.0 up to 3.1 (gaining back some functionality) and have again successfully been able to use PowerPoint.

Clearly version 3.2 of BootCamp services is the culprit.

Regards.

Bob

The installation of Bootcamp 3.2 disables the keyboard language setting in Office 2010 (for reasons unbeknown to me). Go to "File", "Options", "Language" in PPT 2010 and you will see under a the heading "keyboard layout" a hyerlink which says "not enabled". Click on the hyperlink and select a keyboard layout and the keayboard's language. Once you complete the process it will say "enabled" under the keyboard layout heading. That solves the problem with PPT 2010 (at least it worked for me). Good luck!

Hey MC02138,

Your fix did work for me. I added the English "US" keyboard, which enabled the keyboard. Thanks for your help!

Edit: I cannot get this fix to work for Powerpoint 2007, but it does work for Powerpoint 2010.

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MC02138,

This works great for me. Got it fixed by adding a new keyboard layout. Many thanks.

Regards,

SK Chin

Does anyone have a fix for Office 2007?