No color in PowerPoint

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DDL

Hi - I'm working long distance with someone who says that
when they go into PowerPoint and use a DRAW tool, such as
Rectangle, that they get no color. This person has
reinstalled PowerPoint, but still can get no color. They
are using PowerPoint 2002.

Has anyone run into this problem and can give any hints?

Thanks in advance,
DDL
 
DDL
Do you mean they get no fill or do you mean they do not see anything when
they draw?
If the object is not filled with a colour, do this, draw your rectangle fill
it with whatever you want using the drawing toolbar and the fill color
button (looks like a pot of paint spilling over. Now right click on it, in
the menu there should be an option to make this your default choice.
Alternatively you can use the menu Format, Autoshape, do your thing in the
colours and lines tab, and click the box to make this your default, it's
down at the bottom.
Greetings
Luc
 
We probably need a bit more information, but my first thought was that they
might have the View set to Black and White. Have them go to View >
Color/Grayscale and select Color, just to be sure. Then have them try
creating various objects - - text, rectangle, etc. and apply color settings
to them. Let us know what works and what doesn't work.
 
Hi Sonia - I'm translating this second hand, so I hope
this makes sense....

I tried to help the person in question long distance with
the suggestions given on this board. But to no avail.
However in the mean time, this person had called her PC
technician who just arrived. He started looking at her
computer and looking at some websites using her computer,
and came to the conclusion that the color problem was not
within PowerPoint. Apparently, one of the websites that
he was looking at was not showing proper colors, so he
concluded that there was a problem with the PC itself.
The PC is about a month old.

She said the technician called it a "color clip"
problem. (I'm wondering if he said chip and not clip.)
But in any case, the problem that she had is now
corrected.

Thanks for the input. This board is terrific!

DDL
 
Probably she's in "high contrast" mode. It's an accessibility thing that's
set in, I believe, the Windows Control Panel.
 
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