Echo
Fri Sep 05 07:50:35 CDT 2008
> finding that the new layout doesn't appear in the Slide Design panel, and
> when it does, it doesn't update the background when I try to apply it to
> all.
Without knowing what you did to create a new slide master, then it's hard to
say.
But if you right-click and apply a background color, but it doesn't apply,
then it sounds as if the individual slides might have autoshapes or
something on them to simulate a background color. However, if a dark
background will apply, that's probably not the issue. Unless...hm, maybe the
shape is semitransparent. That could give light backgrounds a muddy color,
which is what I think you were describing in the first post.
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"Lucibee" <Lucibee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm using PPT 2003.
>
> Doesn't matter how many times I try to reapply the layout - also, I've
> been
> finding that the new layout doesn't appear in the Slide Design panel, and
> when it does, it doesn't update the background when I try to apply it to
> all.
>
> I'm having to apply the background by right-clicking the slide, selecting
> Background..., then clicking the lower colour box, clicking More
> Colors...,
> and selecting White from the middle of the colour spectrum (which also
> selects White from the lower grey-scale spectrum).
>
> If I then select Apply to all, it doesn't.
>
>