Greetings from Downunder
One of my colleagues sent me this, something of a puzzle.
She is using XP and Office 2003:-

In My Documents I have a folder of PPTs of hymns and songs that we use in
church. I file any new songs here making sure that they are a golden yellow
text on a very dark blue background. This is the way it has been for about
4-5 years.

This morning I went to use some of them in the presentation for this coming
Sunday - and would you believe they are now ALL pale yellow on a black
background. Every last one of them - and each song is is a separate PPT
file.

Any idea how this could have happened? and what do I do about it? There are
nearly 700 files in this folder.

All help always appreciated
/carl

This isn't something PPT can do -- change colors globally, as you've
described (although a lot of people sure wish it could at times!). I would
suspect your display driver or hardware. Make sure that nothing's changed in
the color settings on the video driver control panel or even just in Windows
Display Settings; if it's an external monitor, check that all the cables are
plugged in tightly, etc.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
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"Carl" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6008C602-66D8-44CD-9535-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings from Downunder
> One of my colleagues sent me this, something of a puzzle.
> She is using XP and Office 2003:-
>
> In My Documents I have a folder of PPTs of hymns and songs that we use in
> church. I file any new songs here making sure that they are a golden
> yellow text on a very dark blue background. This is the way it has been
> for about 4-5 years.
>
> This morning I went to use some of them in the presentation for this
> coming Sunday - and would you believe they are now ALL pale yellow on a
> black background. Every last one of them - and each song is is a separate
> PPT file.
>
> Any idea how this could have happened? and what do I do about it? There
> are nearly 700 files in this folder.
>
> All help always appreciated
> /carl
>
>

I've passed that info on. Thank you Echo
/carl

"Carl" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6008C602-66D8-44CD-9535-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Greetings from Downunder
> One of my colleagues sent me this, something of a puzzle.
> She is using XP and Office 2003:-
>
> In My Documents I have a folder of PPTs of hymns and songs that we use in
> church. I file any new songs here making sure that they are a golden
> yellow text on a very dark blue background. This is the way it has been
> for about 4-5 years.
>
> This morning I went to use some of them in the presentation for this
> coming Sunday - and would you believe they are now ALL pale yellow on a
> black background. Every last one of them - and each song is is a separate
> PPT file.
>
> Any idea how this could have happened? and what do I do about it? There
> are nearly 700 files in this folder.
>
> All help always appreciated
> /carl
>
>