Microsoft KB Archive/134873

= PPT7: Shaded Backgrounds Appear Banded in Word or Excel =

Article ID: 134873

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q134873



SYMPTOMS
When you paste a PowerPoint slide with a shaded fill background from Slide Sorter view into a Word document or Microsoft Excel worksheet, the slide object appears banded, or color resolution is lost.



CAUSE
This problem occurs when you are running a display color depth of 256 colors.

PowerPoint displays shaded fill backgrounds differently from Word or Microsoft Excel under a 256-color display driver. If your video card supports 32,000, 64,000, or 16.7 million color display depths, you can switch your display color depths to one of those settings, and the gradients will display properly.

NOTE: Even if the gradients display banded, they should print correctly.



RESOLUTION
You can control how PowerPoint copies graphics to be pasted into other programs. To paste the slide object into Word or Microsoft Excel and have it display as it appears in Slide Sorter view, follow these steps:
 * 1) In PowerPoint for Windows 95, click Options on the Tools menu.
 * 2) Click the Advanced tab.
 * 3) Under Export Pictures, select the "Best for On-Screen Viewing" option.

Now if you copy a slide object and paste it into Word or Microsoft Excel, the object displays the same way it does in Slide Sorter view.

NOTE: While this method might make the shaded slide appear better in the document where it is pasted when displayed, the slide might not print correctly. If it is more important to print the object than display it, you should leave the Export Pictures setting at "Best for Printing" (the default).



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

Additional query words: 7.00 ppt95 ppt7 awful stripes striped ugly

Keywords: kbinterop kbprb kbgraphic KB134873

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