Slides look good until printing. Big black blocks cover up words

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When I hit print preview, there are big black blocks that cover the words on
the left side of the pages. Also, there are black blocks behind the two pics
I have in the "Comparison" format. They are also there when I print. There
are no black blocks on the pages when I am adding or editing them. Only when
I print. I want to punch this program right now.
 
are you printing in black and white? have you checked out the greyscale
settings?
07: view / greyscale settings - adjust the black box with the options/ e.g.
light greyscale/ dont show etc.

03: view/ color/ greyscale/ greyscale/ settings on the pop up box.
 
I cannot click on "don't show" as it is not highlitable. (sp?) The blocks
cover the words whether it is in color or black and white. I changed the
grey scale to every option available and the blocks still cover about 90% of
the words in the text boxes. It only shows up in print preview and when
printing. Whether I am printing full pages in color or black and white, or 3
per page in color or black and white, every slide with a pic and words has
black blocks over about 90% of the words. I have two other slides that were
set up as blanks with text boxes inserted that do not have this problem.
 
Some printer's (and their silly driver's) do not handle transparency
settings well. In fact - they don't. Is it possible that the black boxes
are gradient fills that fade to transparent?

Bill Dilworth
 
When I hit print preview, there are big black blocks that cover the wordson
the left side of the pages.  Also, there are black blocks behind the two pics
I have in the "Comparison" format.  They are also there when I print.  There
are no black blocks on the pages when I am adding or editing them.  Only when
I print.  I want to punch this program right now.
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When they "upgraded" the print drivers for our laser printers at work,
it broke a lot of our documents, including PP docs and PDF's, in just
the fashion you describe.

Shaded text boxes in Excel show the shading only, not the text behind
it, etc.

The best part of all this is that my firm recently merged with another
firm and the new "logo" contains both names. Soon after the merger,
our head office stopped accepting documents with the old logo and we
had to start using the new ones. (legal issues, I guess)

Unfortunately, the new logos print as a black box on most documents,
so it can't even be seen.

Like something straight out of a Dilbert cartoon, they will reject a
document with the old logo, but accept the ones with the black box.
 
If so, how would I find out? The black blocks show up on print preview as
well, but not when just viewing and working on the slides.
 
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