"I had that problem repeatedly and just added 1/2 second of silence in the beginning of the audio track and that fixed it. It seems when t..."

"So I sorted through posts with similar titles and found one from a couple of years back where a person recommended changing the PPT slide..."

"That's awesome Robert!!!  "

"WOOHOO!  I helped somebody!  @Alyssa - Get that piece of information to your tech folks!  That sounds like a code glitch to me!"

"I was having the same problem when I used images on a slide Kristi ... but do you know what fixed it for me?  I eliminated the styles!  W..."

"The output isn't sluggish at all. It's when editing the slide within the program itself. (Just the one with all the links).  Now that I h..."

"Thanks Alyssa! It's just one SLIDE on one file ... one with a lot of links to other scenes ... See the details here: https://community..."

"I am going to keep on noting my discoveries here in the hope that it can help others ... I am encountering the 3-second lag again on one..."

"UPDATE - I updated my NVIDIA graphics driver and ensured I was on 96 DPI. I also went in and disabled all high-resource start up processe..."

"Wow ... I am having that issue now with an i7 clocked at 2Ghz Windows 10 system with 8GB ram. I click and wait three seconds. I disconnec..."

"I could use a custom next button! :)"

"Thanks Walt ... I feel kinda dumb for not thinking about a master slide! Appreciate the help!"

"Bingo!  That got it for me ... thanks Phil (3 years later)"

"Thanks Tim ... I used that a long time ago with a headset mic. I didn't realize it converted files too."

"That's awesome Tom!  That will save a LOT of time. Thanks for the feedback ... and you are right about the value of the community!"

"That's exactly what I was trying to accomplish ... thank you Michael! I guess I was on the right track with the variables, but I didn't s..."

"Thanks Steve I've been doing this since 2005 ... I really should know better.  I have paid the price to learn this lesson before, but I g..."

"Okay.  After I reinstalled it and rebooted ... I went back into control panel and repaired it and rebooted ... and now the slides import...."

"I deactivated Storyline ... totally uninstalled it ... reinstalled it ... ... and I have the same problem. Is there a conflict somewhere?..."

"Thanks for the info Phil. I tried the third option, and it didn't change the situation. There is no associated Studio13 PPTA file I tried..."

"Did you ever get any information or advice on this? I am looking to do the same thing! Bruce"

"Thanks Steve.  I am going to try to start from scratch with the ppta file (i.e. delete it) and attempt navigation and level editing witho..."

"I downloaded it and played with it for a few hours.  Here are my observations and conclusions: The interface is remarkably similar to AP..."