Editing White Text on Dark Background

[Peter Reaper]

Hi:

Our company's PowerPoint template has a dark blue background. To make
the text legible, I have made the text white.

When I select a text-block to edit it, the white text is placed over a
*white* background. This obviously makes the text impossible to read and
thus impossible to edit in anything resembling efficiency.

Is this a known problem with PowerPoint and, more importantly, is there
a way to avoid this (without forcing me to alter my chosen styles)?

Thank you!
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Peter Reaper

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[Echo S]

You need to change your color scheme. Go to Format | Slide Color Scheme, and
on the Custom tab, make sure the swatches for background and for text and
lines contrast.

 

[Peter Reaper]

Thanks Echo. That did it!

BTW: Reading your "What's new in PPT 2007" link confirmed for me that
Corel Presentations(1) was infinitely better 10 years ago and the old
version is still better than the current version of PPT.

(1) http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1152105038419


Echo S wrote on 21.02.2007 17:55:

You need to change your color scheme. Go to Format | Slide Color Scheme, and
on the Custom tab, make sure the swatches for background and for text and
lines contrast.

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Peter Reaper

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