Can't Enable 3-D in PowerPoint XP

[John Woodbury]

Does anyone know how to fully enable 3-D functionality in
PowerPoint XP? When I select an object, and click the 3-D
icon on the drawing bar, everything is "grayed out" so
there's no way to change the object. I've tried everything
mentioned in the Help file -- nothing works. Is this yet
another case of an Office function that has to be
specially selected and separately installed from the
original Office XP disk?
Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Does anyone know how to fully enable 3-D functionality in
PowerPoint XP? When I select an object, and click the 3-D
icon on the drawing bar, everything is "grayed out" so
there's no way to change the object. I've tried everything
mentioned in the Help file -- nothing works. Is this yet
another case of an Office function that has to be
specially selected and separately installed from the
original Office XP disk?

No, the 3D feature is part of every PPT install.

PowerPoint can only apply 3D effects to some kinds of shapes, though.
Select an image or text box and it'll gray out, for example.

Try drawing a rectangle - does 3D become available if the rectangle is the only
selected object?

 

[John Woodbury]

Steve,

That worked -- thanks very much for your quick assistance!

John Woodbury
CEO, Econiverse
Voice: 800-795-7144
Int'l: (USA) 707-224-7413
Fax: 707-224-6279
(e-mail address removed)
www.econiverse.com

 

[Glen Millar]

Steve's right. This will show you some of it:

http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/html/rolled_images.html

--
Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Please tell us your ppt version, and get back to us here
Remove spaces from signature
Posted to news://msnews.microsoft.com