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Q138439: Some Fills Lost When Saving from PowerPoint 7.0 as 4.0

Article: Q138439
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbinterop kbusage
Last Modified: 16-APR-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you create a presentation that contains texture fills, two-color shaded
fills, or preset shaded fills, and then save the presentation as a PowerPoint
4.0 presentation, those fills will change.

Texture fills, whether in a Design Template or on individual slides, convert to
the default fill color of the presentation. Two-color shaded fills convert to
one-color shaded fills, and preset shaded fills convert to the default fill
color of the presentation.

The following Design Templates make extensive use of texture fills:

 Bedrock.pot             Blue Weave.pot
 Brown Marble.pot        Metal.pot
 Professional.pot        Tatami.pot
 Wet Sand.pot

The texture fill patterns that ship with PowerPoint are:

 Oak                     Walnut
 Medium Wood             Brown Marble
 White Marble            Green Marble
 Sand                    Cork
 Granite                 Paper
 Cloth                   Woven Mat

CAUSE
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PowerPoint 4.0 does not support texture fills, two-color and preset shaded
fills, or semi-transparent fills. When you save a PowerPoint for Windows 95
presentation in PowerPoint 4.0 format, these features are lost.

RESOLUTION
==========

To save your PowerPoint 7.0 Design Template in PowerPoint 4.0 format so that it
retains its texture fills and special shaded fills, do the following:

1. Open the original (PowerPoint for Windows 95 format) presentation.

2. On the View menu, click Master, and click Slide Master.

3. Select the object(s) on the Slide Master that contain textured or
  custom-shaded fills. On most of the Design Templates, all the graphic
  elements have been grouped together. This means that if you select one
  graphic element, you select them all.

4. On the Edit menu, click Cut.

5. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.

6. In the list of data types, click Picture.

7. Reposition the object(s) as necessary.

8. If necessary, click Bring To Front or Send To Back on the Draw menu.

9. On the View menu, click Master, and then click Title Master.

10. Repeat steps 3-8 if necessary.

Now, when you save your presentation as a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation, it should
appear correctly.

NOTE: You may notice a slight difference in the appearance of the textured,
two-color shaded, and preset shaded fills in the revised Design Templates and
objects. Because the design of the texture pattern has been slightly reduced and
repeated, or tiled, in the filled area, texture fills, for example, will have a
smaller pattern. Differences in the two-color shaded and preset shaded fills
will be less noticeable.

If you have objects on individual slides that use texture or special shaded
fills, you will have to perform a similar procedure on them before you save them
as part of a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation:

1. Select an object that uses a texture or special shaded fill.

2. On the Edit menu, click Cut.

3. On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.

4. In the list of data types, click Picture.

5. Reposition the object if necessary.

Additional query words: ppt95 ppt7 PowerPoint 95 powerpt 4.00a 4.00c powerpnt texture 2-color shaded preset fill Design Template Presentation

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Keywords          : kbinterop kbusage 
Technology        : kbPowerPtSearch kbPowerPt700 kbZNotKeyword2 kbPowerPt700Search kbPowerPt400 kbPowerPt400c kbPowerPt400a
Version           : WINDOWS:4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

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