Microsoft KB Archive/143009

Toolbar Buttons Change Color When You Select More Colors

PSS ID Number: Q143009 Article last modified on 05-16-1998

4.00

MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft PowerPoint for the Macintosh, version 4.0 == 

= SUMMARY =

When you click the More Colors button in the Other Colors dialog box in PowerPoint, the screen may be updated and the colors of the buttons in the toolbars may change. This behavior occurs if the Monitors control panel is set to display 256 or fewer colors.

= CAUSE =

When the More Colors option is invoked from within PowerPoint, a color wheel containing all of the currently available colors is displayed. Eight-bit (256 Color) mode can only display 256 colors out of a palette of 16.7 million colors at any given time. Therefore, the colors normally used in the toolbars may not be available.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The color of the toolbars does not the way PowerPoint behaves. However, there may be circumstances where you don’t want the toolbar colors to be changed. To configure the computer in this situation, use the following steps (these steps work only on computers that can display more than 256 colors):


 * 1) On the Apple Menu, click Control Panels.
 * 2) Start the Monitors control panel.
 * 3) Choose Thousands or Millions from the list of color depths.
 * 4) Click the Close box in the upper-left corner of the Monitors control panel window.

The toolbar colors should now appear as expected.

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