PowerPoint 2003 Solution Center

Performance

How to use Office programs with the Norton AntiVirus Office plug-in
Explains how to resolve low performance issues, the inability to open Office files, or the inability to install some Office programs when you use the Norton AntiVirus plug-in in Office.
Description of how to repair the Windows registry keys of PowerPoint 2003
Provides steps that describe how to repair the Windows registry keys of PowerPoint 2003 by using the Detect and Repair utility when PowerPoint registry keys are missing or damaged.
How to convert a Corel presentation to PowerPoint 2007 format or to PowerPoint 2003 format
Discusses how to convert a Corel presentation slide to a .jpeg graphic. You can insert the graphic from the Corel presentation slide into a PowerPoint 2007 presentation or a PowerPoint 2003 presentation.

The Private Bytes counter in Performance Monitor may continually increase when an ActiveX control that is in an Office 2003 document is updated
Describes a problem when you work with a document that contains an ActiveX control that updates data in the control, the Private Bytes counter in Performance Monitor may continually increase.
Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2003. Office 2003 SP1 contains significant security enhancements and stability and performance improvements.
Description of the security update for Office 2003, for Project 2003, and for Visio 2003: February 13, 2007
Microsoft has released a security update for Microsoft Office 2003. This update addresses a vulnerability that could enable malicious code execution. Additionally, other fixes may be included in the update.

The slide show features may not perform well when you use the Presenter view in PowerPoint
Explains that some slide show features may perform poorly in the Presenter view if the "Show Presenter View" check box is selected. The article discusses how to work around this problem by reducing the processing power that your slide show requires.
Text takes longer than expected to appear on the screen when you type in an Office program
Describes a problem in which text appears on the screen slower than expected when you type text in an Office program.
Word 2003 or PowerPoint 2003 files that have certain WMF and EMF metafiles open slowly
Discusses a problem where Word 2003 or PowerPoint 2003 files that contain certain WMF and EMF metafiles may open extremely slowly. Explains the types of metafiles that can cause this problem.