PowerPoint and screen redraws are slower than usual

Question:

My schedule, just created from scratch, is exhibiting very weird behavior.

- Each triangle paints individually on start up, and the entire chart takes several seconds to open up.
- Copying to PowerPoint (3 slides) takes between 5 and 30 minutes.
- PowerPoint slides so created paint each symbol individually, and take a very long time.

Answer:

This is likely caused by "3-D" symbols and can cause slowness on some very dense schedules. In general we recommend that 3D be turned off for dense schedules.

To turn off 3-D for a symbol, just double-click that symbol in the toolbox and un-check 3-D Look.
If you want to retain 3-D, you can do the following:
1. On the Tools tab, check Speed up 3-D Symbol Highlight drawing.