Okay, I'll see if I can repro here. I have a feeling it's got to do with
the ability to edito objects within a group -- it's caused an extra frame
thing to be added to many objects, but you may not realize it unless you
ungroup the objects. When you right-click and select edit picture, you
should be prompted with a "do you want to convert to a drawing" option,
and you have to click Yes to be able to recolor things using the line
color tool. So, when you're recoloring, are you selecting specific parts
of the WMF, or is it just selected as a whole? If it's as a whole, then
the frame thing I mentioned is indeed the issue. Ungroup your picture
(Draw|Ungroup -- you may have to do this twice) and you should be able to
locate the extraneous frame.
Until I can look at it for real, try using the "recolor" button on PPT's
Picture toolbar and see if that helps at all. I believe it will.
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Lynmarie said:
We are recoloring the WMFs right in PPT. The .wmfs are simple line
drawings
created in Illustrator. When we inport the .wmf file, there is no frame.
To
change the color, we right-click, choose edit picture then recolor using
the
line color tool. When we save, a frame appears.
This happens only in Windows XP.
:
How are you recoloring the WMFs?
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We use Windows XP and notice that when you modify clip art or other
graphics
saved as .wmf files, a border is applied around the graphic after you
hit
apply or save. This doesn't happen in Windows 2000 or earlier Windows.
PowerPoint 2003.
Do you think we need to resave as .bmp files or modify the PPT
preferences?
I would appreciate any help you can provide.
