Microsoft KB Archive/62959

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Presentations in Color PSS ID Number: Q62959 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the PowerPoint version 2.00 Help file for presentations in color.

With PowerPoint’s color capabilities, you can add the full range of colors to objects, text, and pictures copied from other presentations or programs. The colors that you see on the screen depend on the type of color card you have in your computer and the driver that you are using for Windows.

Some cards support millions of different colors and can display up to 256 at a time, while other boards are limited to 16 or fewer colors. If you have a 256-color card, colors will appear as pure on the screen. Boards with limited capability show colors as dithered colors.

To print in color, you’ll need a color printer, but you can also print in inverse gray scale on a monochrome printer. You can make 35mm color slides from a PowerPoint presentation if you have a film recorder, or by using a slide production service such as Genigraphics.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 56 and 149-235 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.