PowerPoint 2004 Files have Grey Text Before the Animation Entrance

[FlyingMac]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I have a number of PowerPoint 2004 files that have text that simply appears when I click. In PowerPoint 2008 all of these text entrances show up as grey prior to their entrance. So if I have a Question and an answer immediately after the Question, the answer is clearly visible in grey on the slide. How can I fix this problem?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

I have a number of PowerPoint 2004 files that have text that simply

appears when I click. In PowerPoint 2008 all of these text entrances show
up as grey prior to their entrance. So if I have a Question and an answer
immediately after the Question, the answer is clearly visible in grey on
the slide. How can I fix this problem?

Have a look here:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/tohlz/archive/2007/02/24/powerpoint-2007-shadow-n
ot-animating-with-text.aspx

This talks about PPT 2003-2007 problems but you're dealing with the same
file format change between 2004 and 2008.

 

[FlyingMac]

Thanks for the response. The text has nothing added to it with respect to shadows etc. I did change the color in 2004 to white because of the darker background. In 2008, I have to remove the "Fill" color to "No Fill" and the "Line" to "No Line". For some reason this changes the color of the text to Black. If I change the color of the Text to White then the Dimmed Text (grey text) shows up again when I use an animation. ie. All the bullets show up dimmed, as a click each bullet, the bullet covers up the dimmed text. Its bizarre. This doesn't happen if I create a brand new PowerPoint in 2008.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for the response. The text has nothing added to it with respect

to shadows etc. I did change the color in 2004 to white because of the
darker background. In 2008, I have to remove the "Fill" color to "No Fill"
and the "Line" to "No Line". For some reason this changes the color of the
text to Black. If I change the color of the Text to White then the Dimmed
Text (grey text) shows up again when I use an animation. ie. All the
bullets show up dimmed, as a click each bullet, the bullet covers up the
dimmed text. Its bizarre. This doesn't happen if I create a brand new
PowerPoint in 2008.

Sorry about the delayed reply ... it took me a little while to track this
down.

Have a careful read of this:
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007/shadows.htm

If that doesn't do it, we'll have to wait for someone more familar with
2008 to jump in.

 

[FlyingMac]

Brilliant! It appears that all my boxes have the "Shadows", so I will have to somehow go through every slide in every slide show and remove the shadow. I do this by selecting the box, then right click or choose Format Object or Format Shape. I then choose "Shadow" from the items on the left side of the pop-up window and deselect the "Shadow" option on the right side of the window.

It sucks that I have to go through about 30 presentations with 20 slides each. If there was a quick remove all shadows, then I would be even more happy.

Thanks again for the help.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Brilliant! It appears that all my boxes have the "Shadows", so I will have to somehow go through every slide in every slide show and remove the shadow. I do this by selecting the box, then right click or choose Format Object or Format Shape. I then choose "Shadow" from the items on the left side of the pop-up window and deselect the "Shadow" option on the right side of the window.

It sucks that I have to go through about 30 presentations with 20 slides each. If there was a quick remove all shadows, then I would be even more happy.

It does. That's one reason I haven't bothered installing 2008.
I'm lazy and VBA lets me sit and watch while the computer does the gruntwork.
No VBA in 2008.

Do you still have a copy of 2004 available?

Maybe we can cobble you up a macro that'll automate the job.