Microsoft KB Archive/188622

= PPT98: Cannot Recolor Embedded Equations =

Article ID: 188622

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q188622





SYMPTOMS
If you select an equation and click Recolor The Picture, you receive the following error message:

Sorry, PowerPoint is unable to recolor this picture because it has no colors and no fills. (Possibly due to PostScript in the picture).

In contrast, you can recolor equations if your presentation was imported from a version of PowerPoint for Windows.

NOTE: You may want to recolor equations because their text, which is always black, is difficult to read if your slide background is very dark.



CAUSE
PowerPoint does not allow you to recolor Equation Editor objects because they contain PostScript code. These equations are always printed in black and white.



WORKAROUND
You can work around this behavior by converting the Equation Editor object to a picture. To do this, follow these steps.

NOTE: When you convert an Equation Editor object to a picture, you will no longer be able to edit it in Equation Editor.
 * 1) Select the equation object.
 * 2) On the Edit menu, click Cut.
 * 3) On the Edit menu, click Paste Special. In the Paste Special dialog box, select Picture. Click OK. The equation is pasted as a picture, rather than as an equation object.
 * 4) Double-click the picture to convert it to a PowerPoint object.

You can now recolor the object by using the object and text color options in PowerPoint.

Additional query words: mac macppt mac_ppt 8.0 ppt98 change convert color ole

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprint kbprb kbdisplay KB188622

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