Problems with cut and paste in powerpoint

[sudhakarg79]

Hi there,

I am not an advanced powerpoint user. I am an advanced computer user
though. I am having a wierd problem with powerppint and I will be glad
if you could help.

Please refer
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar/scratch/ppt/pptproblem.ppt


While I am making this presentation, I select some text, copy it and
then paste it. When I select the text and paste it, I invariably get
a shadow on the pasted text, irrespective of whether the text had
shadow to start with it or not. In fact, I am not using shadowed text
anywhere in my slide. When I paste something selected from ppt or
mozilla browser, I get the shadow in the pasted text.

For example, I selected some thing from page 4 of the slides and pasted
it in page 5. I created page 5 by ctrl-m. As you can see, the pasted
stuff in page 5 is shadowed. How do I avoid the shadow?


Can anyone tell me why I am getting this problem and how to prevent it?

In the GUI for ppt, when I open of the menus with alt-F or alt-E, I do
not see the whole menu. I only see about half of the menu. I see the
full menu when I place the mouse over the downarrow marker or if I keep
pressing the down-arrow-key till I reach the end of the visible list of
menu options. How do I make ppt show the whole menu?


thanks for taking the time to help me out.

regards,
Sudhakar.

 

[Sonia]

Open PowerPoint and open the presentation. Draw a rectangle. Does it have a
shadow? If so, with the rectangle selected go to the Shadow tool on the Drawing
toolbar (normally at the bottom of the screen and to the right). Select "No
Shadow". Now right click the rectangle and click on "Set Autoshape Defaults".
Now new objects should have no shadow. Does this work for you when you paste
your text now?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[sudhakarg79]

Yes. That fixed it. thanks for the tip.

Sudhakar.