VISTA : copied Screens w/ CTRL-C into .ppt are not visiable in XP

[Peter Bernard]

Hi',

working with VISTA and create a PowerPoint presentation ... file-format need
to
be .ppt, because presentation should run with XP.

Copy screen shots w/ key combination <CTRL Print> or <CTRL ALT Print> into
internal storage, place it w/ Paste into the presentation.

Running this presentation on XP, the screen shot is only display as a blue
retancle.

What's wrong?

Regards

Peter

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Hi Peter - First of all, this is the PowerPoint
forum for Mac, not Windows. You'll have better luck
getting an answer on the PPT for Windows forum that is
relevant to your query.

That having been said, I tried creating a PowerPoint file
in 2007 on Vista, took a screen shot and pasted the result
onto the slide, and then loaded it onto PowerPoint 2003
under Windows XP. No problems here - the screen shot and
slide looked fine on my end.

Jeff

 

[Peter Bernard]

Hi' Jeff,

thank You for the quick response ... and sorry using the wrong place ...
I posted the question in the other forum.

You tried it and it works ... lucky You! I'm tried it several times with
different
options and did not manage it. Let's see what the others will say

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Hello Peter,

There is one issue that I had with Windows
and screen shots previously, which involved
taking screen shots of Windows Media player
video. You might be experiencing some video
card or driver issues, or you might need to
adjust some settings on your video card software.
Anyway, sorry I can't solve your problem, but hopefully
we can point you in a positive direction to get this
solved.

Jeff

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Copy screen shots w/ key combination <CTRL Print> or <CTRL ALT Print> into
internal storage, place it w/ Paste into the presentation.

Running this presentation on XP, the screen shot is only display as a blue
retancle.

This is an oddball bug that occurs when your shape default settings include one
or two of the pre-formatted shadow settings PPT offers.

Try drawing a rectangle; I'm betting that it'll have one of the two shadow
presets at the lower left of the shadow popup on the drawing toolbar.

If so, give it any other shadow setting but those two (17 and 18) then right
click the rectangle and choose "Set autoshape defaults".

Now try copy/pasting a screenshot as before. Should work now.