PowerPoint printing blank pages in B&W but color is okay

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Mark - 01 Jun 2006 15:34 GMT

I noticed that some pages in my PPT presentation do not print in B&W but they
print fine in color. The heading prints fine but the body of the slide does
not print (or print preview) in B&W mode. I am not using any graphics just
bullet point text.

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Sandy - 01 Jun 2006 18:29 GMT

go to View > Grayscale/Color Settings to adjust your B/W and Grayscale
settings. The easies way, I've found, is click on a slide, hit CTRL-A, the in
settings select Grayscale.

Did this work for you?

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> I noticed that some pages in my PPT presentation do not print in B&W but they
> print fine in color. The heading prints fine but the body of the slide does
> not print (or print preview) in B&W mode. I am not using any graphics just
> bullet point text.

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Mark - 01 Jun 2006 20:34 GMT

Thanks. Yes this worked. I wonder why individual slides had this problem and
others did not?

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> go to View > Grayscale/Color Settings to adjust your B/W and Grayscale
> settings. The easies way, I've found, is click on a slide, hit CTRL-A, the in
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> > not print (or print preview) in B&W mode. I am not using any graphics just
> > bullet point text.

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Sandy - 01 Jun 2006 21:08 GMT

You'll find this mostly with Autoshapes and graphs...

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> Thanks. Yes this worked. I wonder why individual slides had this problem and
> others did not?
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> > > not print (or print preview) in B&W mode. I am not using any graphics just
> > > bullet point text.

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Echo S - 02 Jun 2006 05:48 GMT

Did you create some of the slides using the slide layouts (and therefore,
placeholders) and others with "manual" textboxes or autoshape rectangles?
That might explain it.

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> Thanks. Yes this worked. I wonder why individual slides had this problem
> and
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>> > just
>> > bullet point text.

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