Help: XP annoying features

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lcan

Hi all,

Goodday!

I have just upgrades to Powerpoint XP. As I prepare slides I need to
change font color of some words to hi-light them for my audience. However,
PP XP would "change" the background color every time I change the font color
(background to green if font color to red, to blue if font color to yellow
etc. Enter to return to normal
background color)

Why is PP doing this and how can I disable this new "feature"?

Any general comparisions between Office2000 and XP
versions of Powerpoint is also appreciated. Thanks and regards, lc.
 
lcan,

I've never seen this "feature" before. I tried reproducing it...but failed.

How do you manage to get ppt xp to do this exactly.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

I sholdn't had said upgrade as I just got a new replacement m/c .
It appears the problem only occurs with design templates. My slides were
using
blueprint.pot from Office 2000 which seems to have been removed from
XP.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
lc
 
I think I know what you're talking about -
when you are entering text into a text box,
the background color of the text box may
change once the cursor is placed inside the
box.
This feature is new to PPT 2002, and is intentional.
It ensures that the text that you are typing is legible
and does not become invisible (i.e., same as
background color) when the text is
highlighted. The actual font color or background
color of the text box is not changed, however;
so once you exit the text box, everything returns to
normal.
If you have used versions of PPT previous to 2002,
you might appreciate this feature, although sometimes
the text and background color combination it chooses
is pretty hard to read.
There is no way to turn it off that I know of.

- Jeff Chapman
 
Thanks Jeff. Depending on the design template one would either appreciate
this feature
or get annoyed by the un-necessary distractions (which temporarily destroys
WYSIWYG).
I sincerely hope it can be turn off in future versions of Powerpoint.
Regards,
lc
 
lcan,

If you change the "background" color to something that is close to the
template color, then this problem will go away.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
 
Hi TAJ,

Thanks. As said before I am using blueprint.pot, which has
a white background with a blue grid. I do not change the background
at all. It appears the background color change occurs only for
certain combination. E.g.
o If I change font color to deep blue, background stays white
o If I change font to red, background turns green
o If I change font to yellow, background turns deep blue

My default font color is deep blue, and I hi-light using red (RGB
255,51,204 to
be exact). What do I need to do to avoid flipping to a green background?

Thanks - lc
 
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