PPT97: Embossed Text from Word Appears White in PowerPoint (171173)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q171173 SYMPTOMS
If you use the Embossed effect on text in a Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
document and then copy that text and paste it into a PowerPoint 97
slide, that text does not appear embossed. In addition, if you insert a
Word 97 table into a PowerPoint slide and format some of the text with the
Embossed text effect, the Embossed effect disappears when you click outside
the Word table.
In both of these cases, the text that was embossed in Word appears white in
PowerPoint.
CAUSE
This is not a problem with PowerPoint. The same symptom occurs if you paste
the Word document or table object into Microsoft Excel 97 or into WordPad.
When you copy and paste from a Word document into another program, or
insert a Word document object into that program, what you actually get in
your destination file is a picture of that Word document. When Word creates
pictures of its documents to display in other programs, it replaces all
embossed text with white text.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, follow these steps : to paste the embossed text
into PowerPoint as Formatted Text (RTF):
- In Microsoft Word, select the embossed text and click Copy on the
Edit menu.
- In Microsoft PowerPoint, click Paste Special on the Edit menu.
- Click Formatted Text (RTF) on the list of available data types and
then click OK.
Once the text is pasted as formatted text, it is no longer associated with
Word for editing purposes.
To obtain the embossed effect in a Word table, add the text to the table in
PowerPoint instead of in Word.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here as
it becomes available.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/14/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kbformat kbhowto kbinterop KB171173 |
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