Why is my PowerPoint frozen on Mac?

Why is my PowerPoint frozen on Mac?

If PowerPoint still doesn’t respond, then press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys on Windows (Option+Cmd+Esc on Mac), select PowerPoint in the pop-up window, and press “End Task” (“Force Quit” on Mac). This will work in most cases.

Why does the color wheel keep spinning on my Mac?

Spinning Ball: What It Means When you see the spinning colored beach ball, it means the Mac is slowing down due to low resources, such as memory, hard drive or processing power. It’s telling you to wait while the computer chugs through its work.

How do I stop the spinning wheel on my Mac?

The quick and easy way to stop the spinning color wheel is to close the unresponsive app. Click on Apple menu in the top left corner of the screen and select “Force Quit…”. In the Force Quit Applications window select the unresponsive application and click on “Force Quit” button.

How do I unfreeze PowerPoint without losing work on Mac?

Go to the Apple menu:

  1. Press the combination Cmd+Option+Esc, and a window will pop-up.
  2. After pressing the above keyboard combination, the Force Quit Applications should appear, select Microsoft Word and then click on the “Force Quit” button. The Mac will also display a list of programs.

How do I fix PowerPoint not responding on Mac?

What to do if PowerPoint stops responding in Mac (spinning wheel)

  1. Check the hard disk name.
  2. Move AutoRecovery files.
  3. Rename PowerPoint preferences.
  4. Create a New User Account.
  5. Test saving the files in Safe Mode.

Why do I keep getting the beachball on my Mac?

The most basic reason the beach ball appears is because your Mac’s hardware can’t handle the software task at hand. The beach ball may also appear if you don’t have enough RAM. Virtual memory paging and swapping (freeing RAM by moving data to swap files on disk and back) consumes CPU cycles.

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