Transparency refuses to work on a box object

[A Gunslinger]

All of a sudden when I apply a transparancy to a box I draw on a lsie, and
set it 75%, it has bo effect. The slider shows a transparancy change to the
color but after exiting out of format object window there is no chamge.
Thoughts?

Thanks folks!

 

[todd.roat]

Hi Steve,

I cant think of anything that has chnaged. Out of curiosity, I opened
a brand new blank presentation and tried to place a transparancy on a
box and it worked fine. Must be something within this slide
template/layout. Hmmmm

 

[todd.roat]

Steve,

I found it quite by accident. For some reason it seems that if you
draw a box and the shadow settings are default to ON, it turns the
whole box black. So I was actually making the black box transparent by
75%, but since the black shadow was on underneath it there was no
visual change apparant!

 

[Echo S]

Got it. Good one, Todd!