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John Wilson
We have a free addin to put pattern fills back
ONLY B&W and won't work in graphs
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#Tricks
John
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ONLY B&W and won't work in graphs
http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/powerpoint_hints_and_tips_tutorials.html#Tricks
John
Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[ said:It has dissapeared. Now, a way to succeed: use Word to fill your shape
with the pattern you want and then copy/paste it in PPT
FP said:Where is the official Microsoft comment on this? I have spent hours
looking
for the pattern control and as a last result decided to search the web
for
the answer. In the interim I have found I can take 2003 objects with
pattern
fills and use paint brush to apply them in 2007 but its a time consuming
work
around and may not be stable. Its difficult to believe that MS would
remove
this facility. Pattern fills are an essential feature of engineering
sketches. Without patterns PowerPoint becomes an even more second rate
product. A friend successfully uses Autosketch and then converts the
drawings
to pdf's for presenations. That may be the way to go as it works
reasonably
well. I hear others are going to open office but I am not sure what
disadvanatges that will have.
Lucy Thomson said:message
Lucy,
Hercule,
The graphics that I am using area being created with shapes. In one
case
today it was to create a Gantt chart and in the other it was a
geographic
map
of shapes.
Ahhh, shapes. Would making the shapes in Word then copy/paste work for
you?
Pattern fills are still around in Word '07. Or creating pictures of your
shape pattern fills and then using the picture fill command? I've done a
wee
bit of testing and it seems old '03 shapes with pattern fill can be
resized
& converted to other shapes in '07 (though not re-coloured) - could that
work for you?
I create Gantts in Excel (saves me having to buy/learn Project):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010346051033.aspx
Group and ungroup was Ctrl-Shft-G / Ctrl-Shft-H now it's Ctrl-G /
Ctrl-Shft-G.
Must admit I didn't know that original one as I'm a button gal for
group/ungroup - I suppose as I use the mouse to select so just hang on
to
it...
To make matters worse, what was group is now ungroup. Ctrl-O
used to open the format menu, now it's file open.
AFAIK Ctrl+O has always opened the open dialogue accross the Office
suite
Format painter used to be
Ctrl-Shft-C which now is nothing.
My only suggestion is to add it to the QAT then you can use Alt +
whatever
'07 tells you. Personally I prefer pick up style & apply style commands
to
format painter in PPT
.... and let's not start on how Excel
operates completely differently then the rest of the office suite
(alt-F4
closes all rather than just the current file, and ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] do
not
reduce and increase font size). I only use the standard keystrokes.
I always used Ctrl+W to close files and that still works. In general, I
guess I didn't use as many keyboard shortcuts as I thought I did ;-)
(BTW, thanks for taking the time to reply to me)
Just trying to ease the pain in any way I can
Lucy
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