PowerPoint 2010 keeps crashing

A ha!

For PowerPoint 2007 on Windows 7....

Open Control Panel
Press "Change keyboards or other input methods" from "Clock, Language, and Region"
Press "Change keyboards..."
Press "Add..."
Roll down "English (United States)" (if it's not already expanded)
*Select "US"*
Press "OK"
Press "OK"
Press "OK"
Close the Control Panel

That worked for me!!

We support >160 MBP running boot camp with WIN7 and office 2010. We have started seeing the PowerPoint crash also with the boot camp 3.2 update. A quick solution is to create another windows user account from the users control panel inside windows. Log out of your existing user ID then log in to the new user ID you created and test PowerPoint.

Problems we have seen like this in the past is normally some kind of windows registry corruption. This kind of problem is not normally fixed quickly by vendors because someone has to prove the cause of the corruption.

Interesting sidenote(s): I have the same problems with PPT2010 as everybody else, but i cannot remove BC because i need access to the OS X partition.

1. i have VMware workstation VM on my 64bit win7 side. The VM is a 64bit version of win7 with Office2010 inside the VM also. Everything is fine INSIDE the VM. keyboard works fine. Outside the VM, in the 'native' Win7x64/Office2010, i get the crash. VMware traps and converts keystrokes, obviously.

2. cut/paste into PPT text boxes works on the non-VM native/host Win7 side (i have put text in Notepad and C/V'd into the PPT text boxes fine.

3. the dialog boxes in ppt accept keyboard input fine! (i opened an existing PPT, opened a search/replace box and entered text and REPLACED ALL, and worked fine)

4. oddly, the on-screen keyboard (Accessibility options) crashed PPT as well. [Obviously interfaces with the problem kybd driver]

so, i am stuck with PPTing into a VMware VM , and then moving the finished PPT over to the host Win7 for printing, Camtasia, email, etc (since i cannot remove the BC3.2 for other reasons so far).

just FWIW--i will call apple on this later this week when i get time--unless somebody else posts their answer here earlier. gm

That worked, thanks!!!!

NICE! This worked. Many thanks

Worked for me. To be clear: when you click on the hyperlink, as described above, it brings up another dialog box. From there you should click "Add" and choose an English language configuration (I used English US). Then click OK to close the dialogs and everything should work fine.

This also worked for me. Such a stupid bug. Thanks a million for saving me all the BC uninstalling headache!!!!!

Awesome job finding this as we just had a person hit this after upgrading to v3.2 and thankfully enabling the keyboard did the trick. Nice to have a work around that doesn't involve uninstalling and then installing X version of Boot Camp (and making sure to remind folks to not update again).

This fix worked for me as well. PPT 2010 now works.

An odd bug.

Yes, I can confirm this worked! And it works for PPT 2010. I reinstalled 3.2, confirmed powerpoint stopped working again, tried this quick fix, ran powerpoint again and viola! it works!

Thanks!

Thanks you so much, it work for me. I had spent so much time try to fix this without success. thanks you so much MC02138.

I am have the same terrible issues. My config is Macbook Pro 15 with i5. I am running Snow Leopard with Bootcamp + VMWare Fusion 3.1 and Windows 7 x64 + Office 2010.

When I initiate certain type of edits under Bootcamp in PowerPoint, Word or even Outlook when i'm creating emails the Office applications crashes and restarts.

Finding this thread at least helps me feel like i'm a not alone. This is a terrible issue Apple. FIX IT!

Thanks! This also solved a problem with CorelDraw x5 crash on startup.

This worked for me! And I am using Powerpoint 2010. Thank you so much!!

Yup fixed here. Here is the best part of this story (for me)

I was in a final interview yesterday (three month process) and was tasked with creating a presentation in response to a case study. Time limit: 1 hour. You guessed it. Big crash.

Fortunately I had iWork so I booted up. I had not really used key note before. Got through it but of course none of my animation builds converted properly.

To say I was profoundly disappointed would be an understatement.