Some Fills Lost When Saving from PowerPoint 7.0 as 4.0 (138439)

SYMPTOMS

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

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:

Open the original (PowerPoint for Windows 95 format) presentation.
On the View menu, click Master, and click Slide Master.
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.
On the Edit menu, click Cut.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
In the list of data types, click Picture.
Reposition the object(s) as necessary.
If necessary, click Bring To Front or Send To Back on the Draw menu.
On the View menu, click Master, and then click Title Master.
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:

Select an object that uses a texture or special shaded fill.
On the Edit menu, click Cut.
On the Edit menu, click Paste Special.
In the list of data types, click Picture.
Reposition the object if necessary.

Some Fills Lost When Saving from PowerPoint 7.0 as 4.0 (138439)

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