How do I remove the boxes around the text when printing handouts?

[Guest]

When printing PowerPoint handouts, how do I remove the boxes around the text
on the text slides?

 

[David]

-----Original Message-----
When printing PowerPoint handouts, how do I remove the boxes around the text
on the text slides?
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"format text box" "line colour" no line

 

[Echo S]

When printing PowerPoint handouts, how do I remove the boxes around the text
on the text slides?

Remove the fill from the placeholder. You may have to go to
View/Master/Slide Master so you can remove it from just the placeholder on
the master -- then that will affect all the slides in the presentation.

 

[Guest]

When printing PowerPoint handouts, how do I remove the boxes around the text
on the text slides?

I have been struggling with this since I am using PPT. Imagine I want to
make a B&W drawing, say I want to draw 3-quarters of an elipse by drawing the
whole thing with no fill and then blanking out one quarter of it. So I draw a
rectangle of the appropriate size and place it over the bit I don't want. I
fill it with white and I specify "noline". Looks wonderful on my screen, just
as I want it. Then go to pring preview, and suddenly there is a line around
the rectangle. And I have no idea how to get rid of that. Anybody any ideas ?

 

[Bob Ostwald]

Kees,

Here's the trick, assuming you are using PPT 2000 or newer. I don't have
older versions to test. I just (finally) learned this trick from Echo and
Kathy at PowerPoint Live this week:

After you have your shapes looking as you want them:

* view the slide in Black and White or Grayscale mode
* select the object for which you want to remove the line (the rectangle in
your example)
* right-click that object and on the pop-up menu select:
- "Black and White" (PPT 2000), or
- "Black and White Setting" or "Grayscale Setting" (PPT 2002, 2003)
* select "White"

The slide should now print without the line around the rectangle, but it
will still look the way you want it to in color. The key point to remember
is that the settings for Black and White/Grayscale are distinct from the
color settings.

Bob Ostwald

I have been struggling with this since I am using PPT. Imagine I want to
make a B&W drawing, say I want to draw 3-quarters of an elipse by drawing the
whole thing with no fill and then blanking out one quarter of it. So I draw a
rectangle of the appropriate size and place it over the bit I don't want. I
fill it with white and I specify "noline". Looks wonderful on my screen, just
as I want it. Then go to pring preview, and suddenly there is a line around
the rectangle. And I have no idea how to get rid of that. Anybody any

ideas ?

 

[Guest]

Thank you. I'll try it straight away.

Kees,

Here's the trick, assuming you are using PPT 2000 or newer. I don't have
older versions to test. I just (finally) learned this trick from Echo and
Kathy at PowerPoint Live this week:

After you have your shapes looking as you want them:

* view the slide in Black and White or Grayscale mode
* select the object for which you want to remove the line (the rectangle in
your example)
* right-click that object and on the pop-up menu select:
- "Black and White" (PPT 2000), or
- "Black and White Setting" or "Grayscale Setting" (PPT 2002, 2003)
* select "White"

The slide should now print without the line around the rectangle, but it
will still look the way you want it to in color. The key point to remember
is that the settings for Black and White/Grayscale are distinct from the
color settings.

Bob Ostwald


ideas ?