Microsoft KB Archive/151049

PP4x: Slides Lose Colors When Opened in PowerPoint 7.0 on WinNT

PSS ID Number: Q151049 Article last modified on 05-16-1998

windows:7.0

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 == Microsoft Windows NT Workstation, version 3.51 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

When you open a PowerPoint 4.0 presentation in PowerPoint 7.0, objects seem to lose their fill or line colors (if you have a predefined fill on an object such as a box, it will not retain the colors it had in 4.0.)

= CAUSE =

This problem occurs when you are running PowerPoint 7.0 on a Windows NT 3.51 workstation with an ATI Mach 64 video card.

NOTE: If you start Windows NT in VGA mode, the colors will appear correctly (although they will be dithered.)

= RESOLUTION =

To take full advantage of the Mach 64 video driver, set the amount of colors that the driver can display to the maximum, 16 million colors.

= STATUS =

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products’ performance or reliability.

= Additional query words: 7.00 ppt95 ppt7 ppt4 w_powerpt different =

Keywords : kbdisplay kbenv kbdta Version : windows:7.0 Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.