Copy/Paste cell formatting in tables in PowerPoint2007

[PeterB]

I have verified that when copy/pasting a row of cells in a table in
PowerPoint 2003, the formatting (specifically fill color) is carried over
successfully.

However, we cannot get the same function to work in PowerPoint 2007.

We have tried Paste Special but that only brings up an option for HTML,
which does not carry over the fill formatting.

We have tried using the format painter, but that appears to do nothing at all.

Can someone please advise how to get the formatting of cells (specifically
fills) to copy/paste properly in a table in PowerPoint 2007?

This is being tried with a new blank table inserted via the Insert -> Table
command in PowerPoint. No external data/tables have been used in our testing.

 

[PeterB]

Has no one else exeperienced this issue?

 

[PeterB]

The only work around we have found it to copy the table out of PowerPoint 2007,
and paste it into Excel 2007 -> as HTML.

We are then able to copy/paste rows and have the formatting carry over.
We then copy/paste the table out of Excel and back into PowerPoint.

Defeats the purpose of inter-operability between programs of course, but
it's a work around.