I opened powerpoint, and opened a recent presentation. The presentation did not appear. I went into mission control, and saw the window was there. When dragging the window into a new desktop, it simply rose to the top left (outside the desktop preview) and faded away. Look at the sequence of images, you'll see what i mean:
BTW: The first image should actually say 'Desktop 1'. I messed up in the screen shots!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
This is the only thing that worked for me - my question is why is this like this?
Have you tried going to the Display preferences and forcing the machine to detect displays (in case you had previously plugged into another display and the machine has not realized the 2nd display is not connected)?
It worked to some extent...
Now the powerpoint window is visible, but the top section is still out of the screen.
With some 'less intelligent' applications, this workaround has helped:
First, be sure to tick the Show displays in menu bar checkbox in the Displays item on System Preferences, to get the menulet up and have instant access to all things display without having to fumble all the time.
Then, when an app goes offscreen, use the menulet to reduce the display resolution a size or two. This causes the OS to signal all apps that have open windows of the change so they can adjust accordingly. As per Apple's recommended Human Interface guidelines, the apps are mandated to constrain their windows to the visible area of the screen, and most do.
After that happens, you can return to the regular screen resolution. Windows will stay constrained to the smaller res or may readjust to fill the new one, but not exceed it.
Bingo! This soved it totally! Thanks for all your help!
Once the windows get resized, you will have regained access to the whole of them and will be able to use the controls. Awkward two-step dance, I know, but certainly better than just staring helplessly at a piece of window covering the whole of the screen.
BTW, Powerpoint is usually decently behaved in this respect; some other freeware apps, not so much.
This solution did not work for me but I found that going to the Window menu in Powerpoint and selecting Zoom Window brought the off screen window back onto my MacBook's screen. I'm running OS 10.8.3 and PowerPoint 2011 version 14.3.2.
I just got a Macbook Pro Retina, and the PPT appeared as opened but not on the screen. I think this was because I opened PPT on a bigger screen and I forgot to put it back to fit mine. Anyhow...just clik on the powerpoint, make sure that it is on your top action bar, and click on "Slide Show", go down to "Set up show" and...Voila!.
Try Command F1.
Worked for me.
This worked for me I'm using osx 10.8.3 with worked perfectly
Courcoul's solution used to work for me, but rather frustratingly it has now stopped working. I couldn't get the other solutions above to work either. I eventually got around it by using a variant.
Quit Powerpoint (Important!).
Reduce the resolution of your display using system preferences/display pane. (I used the lowest resolution).
Then reopen Powerpoint / your presentation whilst in the lower resolution.
Then restore your original (higher) resolution using system preferences/display pane.
The Powerpoint window comes to view.
Thanks! This worked for me!
And don't forget that MS has put out the 14.3.6 update for Office::Mac 2011: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2869604
This is the only solution that worked! Thank you Edward Bowden, Ph.D.🙂
I am running a MacBook Pro with an external monitor. This is how I fix this problem every time.
1. Unplug your external monitor
2.Enter full screen mode ( View > Enter Full Screen )
3. Exit full screen mode ( You should see the bottom half of the PPT window)
4. Plug in your external monitor
5. The entire PPT window should now be visible
Cheers
Powerpoint window off the screen
