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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)
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)?
Thanks Courcoul, this problem occured with me when I had unplugged my external monitor before closing PPT and I couldn't get it fixed. Your solution totally worked, provided that the external monitor was not connected. THANKS!
In Powerpoint, go to the Windows menu > Arrange All.
This worked for me, thanks! The other, more complex solution did not. Simplicity is good!
I have the same problem, what I do is at the windows tab on the home screen press cascade windows and it shows up again on your desktop. Very frustrating.
Thanks! This was a great help! 🙂
Thank you Edward Bowden,
I run OS X 10.8.5 and Courcals suggestion did not work for my operating system but your suggestion did. Thanks a bunch!! Now I can work on my PPT without issues!
This seems to me to be the answer the works with OS X Mavericks
Thank you for this
When powerpoint gets hidden off of your display, make sure you are in the Powerpoint application and go to the Window setting in the menu bar for the Powerpoint app. Click on Zoom Window and it should bring the file that is hidden into the main display.
In Mavericks 10.9.2 my problem appears when I have another, larger screen working and I close out Power Point from that screen. If I then open the file from my MacBookPro without the extra screen, I see Powerpoint open the file in a dialog box, but the image flies off the screen to where the original larger screen was. I do see the small PP Window in Command Center but can't move it to a command window to work. Command F1 doesn't bring it back. Going to View/Zoom Out (or In) doesn't work. Happily, View/Enter Full Screen does work!
But the view indeed goes to full screen where the window no longer acts like window that you can grab and move over. If I go to the upper right corner and bring down the hidden menu bar, and press the button of the arrows pointing at eachother, I can collapse the PP window, but it flys off screen again.
At least I can work with the file!
THANKS INTRADINK U ARE THE ONE WHO SAVED ME
This solved it for me! Thank you!
EXCELENT THANKS!
Thanks so much! This worked like a charm!
That totally fixed, thanks!
Awesome, this is the only option that worked for me
Powerpoint window off the screen
