Mysterious double letters

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Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of
letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised
and to the right of the letters I typed and is a different coloe. I cannot
find any setting that controls this, nor do I know how it started.

It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular
file.
 
Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of
letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised
and to the right of the letters I typed and is a different coloe. I
cannot
find any setting that controls this, nor do I know how it started.

It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular
file.
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Hi Jane,

which version of PowerPoint do you use? Switch to Master View and see,
whether the formatting of the placeholder shows the same effect.

Best regards,
Ute
 
It may be a shadow from the drawing toolbar. Select the textbox and then on
the drawing toolbar, click the Shadow tool, then No Shadow.

If that removes it, we can tell you how to fix it for the default textboxes.
 
2003. I should have stated that to begin with...

Let's see if I understood you correctly. In the master there is no
placeholder for what I am doing - it's not for the common placeholder text
for the title or body. It's when I insert a text box, using the text box
function on the drawing toolbar. It is not part of the textbox formatting in
any way I can find. If I insert a text box in the master, it does the same
thing, however. When I insert a text box into a new file or other older
files, it does not happen.
 
Like Echo, I suspect that a colored shadow was applied to the shape. But if
you cannot find it, there's another way to get rid of it: Open another
presentation and type a word of sample text there. Format this textbox to
your liking and copy the whole textbox (click on the edge) to the
"mysterious" presentation. The mysterious target formatting might be
applied, but you can reverse that by clicking on the little smarttag
(usually at the bottom right of the shape) and choose "Keep source
formatting". Right-click on the edge of this shape and choose "Use as
standard for new shapes". All new shapes will look "normal" now. And you can
copy their formatting to other shapes using the yellow paintbrush symbol.

Best regards,
Ute
 
"Use as standard for new shapes" = "Set Autoshape Defaults"

Also, after you do this on a textbox, you'll want to create a regular
autoshape -- rectangle, oval, etc. -- format it the way you want, then
right-click and "set autoshape defaults" again. Otherwise, your regular
shapes won't have any line or fill by default.
 
Thanks, Echo. This was it. I have never used this function before and was
not aware of it. I assume that it's part of the default for the textboxes at
this time and I need to change that as Ute Simon mentioned. I'm sure it's
easy, but haven't a clue as it's not part of the standard text box formatting.

Thanks again.

Echo S said:
It may be a shadow from the drawing toolbar. Select the textbox and then on
the drawing toolbar, click the Shadow tool, then No Shadow.

If that removes it, we can tell you how to fix it for the default textboxes.

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GFJane said:
Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of
letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised
and to the right of the letters I typed and is a different coloe. I
cannot
find any setting that controls this, nor do I know how it started.

It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular
file.
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