Microsoft KB Archive/61922

Changing Color Scheme Does Not Affect Imported Graphics PSS ID Number: Q61922 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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Summary:

In Microsoft PowerPoint, if imported graphics are recolored by choosing Recolor Picture from the Color menu, and the color assigned to the graphic is taken from the color scheme, subsequent changes to the color scheme do not change the graphic’s color.

More Information:

If graphics created in PowerPoint are assigned a color from the color scheme, changing the assigned color on the color scheme changes the graphic’s color. However, this is not the case for objects that have been imported rather than created within PowerPoint.

For example, a circle is drawn in PowerPoint and filled with a color from the color scheme. Another circle is imported from another graphics program by choosing Paste or Paste From, and is recolored with the same color in the color scheme as the first circle.

If you then change that color in the color scheme, the color of the object that was created in PowerPoint changes with it, while the color of the imported object remains unchanged.

Note: If you create a graphic in PowerPoint, copy or cut it, and choose Paste As Picture from the Edit menu, the program treats the graphic as an imported graphic. Therefore, changing colors assigned from the color scheme does NOT recolor graphics pasted as pictures.

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