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Mark - 30 Oct 2006 16:52 GMT

Recently, autoshapes stopped appearing in PowerPoint. They do appear in the
slide preview scroll menu on the left side of the screen, but NOT in the main
edit screen and they do NOT appear in the print preview. Any thoughts on
settings that might have been changed that are causing this problem?

I am working in PowerPoint 2002 sp-2.

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John Wilson - 30 Oct 2006 17:06 GMT

Check in View > color / greyscale that you have "color" selected. It's
possible in greyscale view to set the DEFAULT for autoshapes to "dont show"
(Not easy to do by accident though)

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> Recently, autoshapes stopped appearing in PowerPoint. They do appear in the
> slide preview scroll menu on the left side of the screen, but NOT in the main
> edit screen and they do NOT appear in the print preview. Any thoughts on
> settings that might have been changed that are causing this problem?
>
> I am working in PowerPoint 2002 sp-2.

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Echo S - 30 Oct 2006 18:29 GMT

Might just be a display issue. (And thanks for including your verison of
PPT -- saved me from suggesting you install SP2 for Office 2003! LOL!)

I'd try knocking hardware acceleration back a few notches and see if that
helps.

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

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> Recently, autoshapes stopped appearing in PowerPoint. They do appear in
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> I am working in PowerPoint 2002 sp-2.

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