Microsoft KB Archive/63051

Opaque Objects Don’t Translate Correctly PSS ID Number: Q63051 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

In most cases, opaque objects within Microsoft PowerPoint slides do not translate properly when the slides are converted from Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows version 2.00 format to Microsoft PowerPoint for the Macintosh format or vice versa if you are using version 1.00 of the translator for Apple File Exchange.

When a PowerPoint for Windows slide is converted to PowerPoint for the Macintosh format, oval and round rectangular opaque objects lose their shading, but retain their shape and color. Rectangular opaque objects retain all of their characteristics.

When a PowerPoint for the Macintosh slide is converted to PowerPoint for Windows format, oval and round rectangular opaque objects lose their shape, taking on the shape and size of their selection rectangle, but retain their shading and most of their color.

These objects, as well as rectangular opaque objects, lose some of their color, usually only in one corner of the object, as though the corner had been cut away. This corruption is still present if the file is converted back to Macintosh PowerPoint format.

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

More Information:

To create an opaque object, follow these steps:


 * 1) Create a slide with a shaded background.
 * 2) Draw an oval, rectangle, or round rectangle object using the appropriate tool from the tools palette.
 * 3) With the object selected, make sure that the Filled and Shadowed options are unchecked, and set the object to Opaque.
 * 4) With the object selected, choose Cut from the Edit menu.
 * 5) From the Edit menu, choose Paste As Picture. The object may then be resized, if desired.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.