text box by default in Table Cells?

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PowerPoint 2003. Create a table in a blank slide consisting of three columns
and three rows. Infill all cells with different colours - the left-hand top
and middle cells HAVE A TEXT BOX IN! Which there seems to be NO WAY OF
REMOVING! How stupid is this? Does anyone know of a way to remove this
completely unwanted text box, and WHY the hell this seems to be by default?
 
I'm not sure what you are seeing, but all cells of a table generally act,
in some ways, like text boxes. Can you try to explain a little better what
you are seeing? Whenever I click on any cell of a table, it lets me type
text.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 
David M. Marcovitz said:
I'm not sure what you are seeing, but all cells of a table generally act,
in some ways, like text boxes. Can you try to explain a little better what
you are seeing? Whenever I click on any cell of a table, it lets me type
text.
Click to expand...

Assuming all cells have been filled with a colour other than white, when I
click in the top left-hand cell or the middle left-hand cell, a white box
appears. This doesn't happen in any of the other cells...
 
Assuming all cells have been filled with a colour other than white,
when I click in the top left-hand cell or the middle left-hand cell, a
white box appears. This doesn't happen in any of the other cells...
Click to expand...

It has to do with the background color. PowerPoint seems to decide that
certain background colors require a white box when you are typing text
and others don't. You'll probably notice that if you change the cells
that get the white boxes to a color like pink or blue, the white boxes go
away. These are just areas for typing and shouldn't affect how the cells
look in the show.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
 
David M. Marcovitz said:
It has to do with the background color. PowerPoint seems to decide that
certain background colors require a white box when you are typing text
and others don't. You'll probably notice that if you change the cells
that get the white boxes to a color like pink or blue, the white boxes go
away. These are just areas for typing and shouldn't affect how the cells
look in the show.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that - nanny PowerPoint! In fact it shoots itself in the foot, as
one cell is dark red, and gives me a white box - another cell is dark blue,
and to my thinking is actually darker than the red one, yet gives no white
box!
 
Thanks for that - nanny PowerPoint! In fact it shoots itself in the
foot, as one cell is dark red, and gives me a white box - another cell
is dark blue, and to my thinking is actually darker than the red one,
yet gives no white box!
Click to expand...

My favorite is the gray box. It is the same color as the cursor, but it
doesn't give a white box. What this means is that you can't even tell it is
selected because you can't see the flashing cursor.

--David
 
Assuming all cells have been filled with a colour other than white, when I
click in the top left-hand cell or the middle left-hand cell, a white box
appears. This doesn't happen in any of the other cells...
Click to expand...

I don't think it has anything to do with which specific cell it is; if you're
seeing what I think you are, it's a peculiarity of the way PPT hightlights
selected text in differently colored rectangles.

Draw a few rectangles, give them the same fill color you've given your table
cells and type a little text into each. See what happens when you select all
of the text in each rectangle.

It's a bit disconcerting and certainly inconsistent, I agree.
 
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