Microsoft KB Archive/69001

Using the Keyboard to Access the Recolor Picture Menu PSS ID Number: Q69001 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The Recolor Picture dialog box in PowerPoint for Windows cannot be fully utilized with only the keyboard if additional colors have been added to the original color scheme.

More Information:

If you choose Recolor Picture from the Color menu to change the colors of a graphic, a menu appears that displays each color currently in the graphic. Opposite that color is a pull-down color list from which you can choose:


 * 1) Any color in the current color scheme.
 * 2) Any color from the palette.

When you use the arrow keys to display the initial set of options from the color scheme, the first choice displayed is the color at the bottom of the list. Pressing the UP ARROW key shows the other colors individually, until the top of the list is reached. Press the DOWN ARROW key to scroll down the list. If you press the DOWN ARROW key again after the last color has already been displayed, the “other colors” menu is displayed.

However, if another color has been added to the color scheme, this will not behave correctly. As a rule, when the color scheme is displayed, the additional color or colors will be displayed at the end, following a swatch saying “other.” This is also the case when the Recolor Picture dialog box appears and the arrow keys are used to scroll through the initial list of scheme colors. The last color in the list is the first one displayed, and is therefore one of the added colors following the “other” swatch.

The arrow keys cannot be used to scroll up the list and access the scheme colors above the “other” swatch. Whenever the “other” swatch is scrolled over with the keyboard, the More Colors dialog box immediately appears. The only workaround for this problem is to scroll using a mouse.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint for Windows version 2.00. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.