Font Attributes menus stopped working

[seemiles]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am a relatively new user of powerpoint 2008 and am putting together my first presentation. A colleague of mine started the job in openoffice and passed it over to me. All was fine at this point and I duly went about making alterations. I was playing with text fills (gradient), using colour picker to select a third colour for the gradient - I decided not to go this route. However, now I have disabled the gradient, I went to select a new solid fill colour and none of the text attriute menus work. I click on the colour 'drop down menu' and nothing happens....

This is really frustrating as I have a deadline and I currently cannot get powerpoint to colour the text appropriately... ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Miles

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hi,

I am a relatively new user of powerpoint 2008 and am putting together my first presentation. A colleague of mine started the job in openoffice and passed it over to me. All was fine at this point and I duly went about making alterations. I was playing with text fills (gradient), using colour picker to select a third colour for the gradient - I decided not to go this route. However, now I have disabled the gradient, I went to select a new solid fill colour and none of the text attriute menus work. I click on the colour 'drop down menu' and nothing happens....

This is really frustrating as I have a deadline and I currently cannot get powerpoint to colour the text appropriately... ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Miles

Hi Miles,

OpenOffice does not support text gradient fills at all. If you open a
presentation in OpenOffice the fills will be removed and plain text will
be substituted.

You have to highlight (select) the text again in Office 2008 and use
Format > Text to restore the gradient fills removed by OpenOffice.

If you want OpenOffice users to see gradient text, make the text in
PowerPoint, then right-click on the textbox frame and choose Save As
Picture. Save the picture, then insert the picture and use the picture
instead of real text.

-Jim