Ninja,
Don't know if it will help, but for the text part, and providing all text is
in placeholders and not in textboxes. Click on the outline tab on the left
of your screen (next to the slides thumbnails), PPT shows all text in
placeholders, select all the slides (CTRL+A), apply black font color.
As for the background, just go to the slide master, View - Master - slide
master, apply a suitable background using Format- Background and choose
apply to all. That should remove all the coloured backgrounds. But I guess
you already did that.

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Luc Sanders
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>I am a student and need to print power point slides for lecture using
> power point 2007. I need for the text to be black on white and would
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> white text on white background. I have also tried playing with the
> master slides but that doesn't seem to affect all slides.
Ninja Mantis - 12 Sep 2007 21:51 GMT
> Ninja,
> Don't know if it will help, but for the text part, and providing all text is
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> > white text on white background. I have also tried playing with the
> > master slides but that doesn't seem to affect all slides.
Thanks for the idea, Luc. I tried it on one of the presentations and
there was no effect on the color of the text on the slides. Maybe it
has to do with how the presentations are created (over which I have no
control).
Format background works well for handling the background color, but
the text still remains a problem.
I wish I could upload a copy of the presentation for users to see so
that the problem could be understood more fully.