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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / April 2007Mysterious double letters
Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised and to the right of the letters I typed and is a different coloe. I cannot find any setting that controls this, nor do I know how it started. It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular file. > Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of > letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular > file. Hi Jane, which version of PowerPoint do you use? Switch to Master View and see, whether the formatting of the placeholder shows the same effect. Best regards, Ute  SignatureUte Simon Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team Tipps, Tricks und Kostenloser Newsletter: www.ppt-user.de 2003. I should have stated that to begin with... Let's see if I understood you correctly. In the master there is no placeholder for what I am doing - it's not for the common placeholder text for the title or body. It's when I insert a text box, using the text box function on the drawing toolbar. It is not part of the textbox formatting in any way I can find. If I insert a text box in the master, it does the same thing, however. When I insert a text box into a new file or other older files, it does not happen. > > Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of > > letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Best regards, > Ute Like Echo, I suspect that a colored shadow was applied to the shape. But if you cannot find it, there's another way to get rid of it: Open another presentation and type a word of sample text there. Format this textbox to your liking and copy the whole textbox (click on the edge) to the "mysterious" presentation. The mysterious target formatting might be applied, but you can reverse that by clicking on the little smarttag (usually at the bottom right of the shape) and choose "Keep source formatting". Right-click on the edge of this shape and choose "Use as standard for new shapes". All new shapes will look "normal" now. And you can copy their formatting to other shapes using the yellow paintbrush symbol. Best regards, Ute SignatureUte Simon Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team und PowerPoint-User-Team Tipps, Tricks und Kostenloser Newsletter: www.ppt-user.de > 2003. I should have stated that to begin with... > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> Best regards, >> Ute "Use as standard for new shapes" = "Set Autoshape Defaults" Also, after you do this on a textbox, you'll want to create a regular autoshape -- rectangle, oval, etc. -- format it the way you want, then right-click and "set autoshape defaults" again. Otherwise, your regular shapes won't have any line or fill by default. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Like Echo, I suspect that a colored shadow was applied to the shape. But > if you cannot find it, there's another way to get rid of it: Open another [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] >>> Best regards, >>> Ute It may be a shadow from the drawing toolbar. Select the textbox and then on the drawing toolbar, click the Shadow tool, then No Shadow. If that removes it, we can tell you how to fix it for the default textboxes. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Recently, when I add a text box, the letters I type have another set of > letters behind them -not at all a shadow. The second set is slight raised [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular > file. Thanks, Echo. This was it. I have never used this function before and was not aware of it. I assume that it's part of the default for the textboxes at this time and I need to change that as Ute Simon mentioned. I'm sure it's easy, but haven't a clue as it's not part of the standard text box formatting. Thanks again. > It may be a shadow from the drawing toolbar. Select the textbox and then on > the drawing toolbar, click the Shadow tool, then No Shadow. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > It does not happen in new documents or other old ones, just one particular > > file. Yup, just change the default as Ute explained. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Thanks, Echo. This was it. I have never used this function before and > was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > easy, but haven't a clue as it's not part of the standard text box > formatting. |
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