Powerpoint 2007 graduated background

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Guest

In line with the overall glitzy-chrome presentation of this ill fated
release, PP 2007 has been given a (pointless) graduated backdrop. As any
graphics person will tell you, this makes their work impossible. We are
adapting to this by exporting to Photoshop, doing the work there and then
re-importing bit maps. This is not acceptable, and we need to know how to
turn off this ridiculous graphic. Or allow Office 2007 to adopt the overall
Windows colour scheme. Or dump this release.

Can anyone help?
 
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Ute Simon

In line with the overall glitzy-chrome presentation of this ill fated
release, PP 2007 has been given a (pointless) graduated backdrop. As any
graphics person will tell you, this makes their work impossible. We are
adapting to this by exporting to Photoshop, doing the work there and then
re-importing bit maps. This is not acceptable, and we need to know how to
turn off this ridiculous graphic. Or allow Office 2007 to adopt the
overall
Windows colour scheme. Or dump this release.
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Hi Oliver,

when I open PowerPoint 2007, it starts with a plain white slide. Which
design do you use for your presentation? You can change the background color
of the slide easily on the design tab. Or start with the Office design,
which is white without any gradient.

Or are you talking about the blue background behind the slides? You cannot
change that, but it does not affect the graphics on the slides.

Best regards,
Ute
 
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Guest

Ute Simon said:
Or are you talking about the blue background behind the slides? You cannot
change that, but it does not affect the graphics on the slides.
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---Or in our case, the grey graduated background as that is the nearest to
neutrality that one can get. I know perfectly well that the backdrop it does
not affect the ultimate slide, but it surely does affects the designer. It is
very, very poor practice to work on graphics non-standard background, let
alone a graduated one.

As a remedy, we have either to change the entire corporate desktop to match
Office or live with colour jumps, and pinks that appear blue as they move
down the screen. Or not use Office.

I cannot think what has got into MS. Having developed a coherent unified UI,
you have now deliberately fragmented it. I count around five - five -
separate interface styles in Office, from half page sized orange icons
(templates) through assorted blurry and heavily duplicated task bar icons to
renditions of the desktop.

However, are you able to say definitively that it is not possible to remove
the shaded back ground to the Office interface? Just make it blueish, grey or
reddish?
 
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Echo S

You can try the silver or blue color schemes by changing in File | PPT
Options, but you may not like them any better.
 
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Ute Simon

I thought you were in Seattle attending the summit. Or have you sneaked
out?
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I am indeed in Seattle (as well as Echo, who also answered to this thread).
But they provide us with internet access and so we have a look into the
newsgroup from here.

Best regards,
we miss you

Ute
 
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Guest

Echo S said:
You can try the silver or blue color schemes by changing in File | PPT
Options, but you may not like them any better.
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Thanks, been there, done that. We are evaluating OpenOffice instead, with
positiver results.
 
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