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Dave Jenkins
I'm using PPT 2007, SP1, and am opening files that arrived on my desk as
..ppt. (It's unknown to me whether at one time in their lives they were ever
..pptx's or not, or whhether anything on the slides had a former PPT 2007 life
or not.)
When I open the files, certain graphics (very few of them, I might add, and
I look at literally hundreds/day) have the colors rendered incorrectly.
Those graphics always seem to be three-dimensional button-looking things,
with color gradients. Upon saving as .ppt, PPT 2007 gives me the common
warning about previous versions won't be able to edit the graphic, but they
will be able to edit the text.
If I were to open the original .ppt file on a PPT 2003 system, all colors
would be rendered correctly.
To fix the problem on PPT 2007, I had to go into color themes, and create a
new theme. By using the theme that was created automatically from the
template of the .ppt file, and searching for apporpriate accent colors, I was
able to get the graphics to render correctly in 2007. And from then on,
through .pptx and .ppt saves, the colors continued to render correctly.
What kind of graphic would cause such problems? Is it something that at one
time was created in PPT 2007 and copied into a PPT 2003 file? What might we
do to keep this from happening in the future - any instructions we can give
the folks who are creating the presentation files?
And finally, what's up with these "accent" colors in the PPT 2007 theme
colors? If you don't get in and edit one of the colors sets, you'd bnever
know they were there, would you?
Thanks.
..ppt. (It's unknown to me whether at one time in their lives they were ever
..pptx's or not, or whhether anything on the slides had a former PPT 2007 life
or not.)
When I open the files, certain graphics (very few of them, I might add, and
I look at literally hundreds/day) have the colors rendered incorrectly.
Those graphics always seem to be three-dimensional button-looking things,
with color gradients. Upon saving as .ppt, PPT 2007 gives me the common
warning about previous versions won't be able to edit the graphic, but they
will be able to edit the text.
If I were to open the original .ppt file on a PPT 2003 system, all colors
would be rendered correctly.
To fix the problem on PPT 2007, I had to go into color themes, and create a
new theme. By using the theme that was created automatically from the
template of the .ppt file, and searching for apporpriate accent colors, I was
able to get the graphics to render correctly in 2007. And from then on,
through .pptx and .ppt saves, the colors continued to render correctly.
What kind of graphic would cause such problems? Is it something that at one
time was created in PPT 2007 and copied into a PPT 2003 file? What might we
do to keep this from happening in the future - any instructions we can give
the folks who are creating the presentation files?
And finally, what's up with these "accent" colors in the PPT 2007 theme
colors? If you don't get in and edit one of the colors sets, you'd bnever
know they were there, would you?
Thanks.