Echo... thanks for replying. I'm copying from one line of a PPT table and
trying to paste onto another line of the same table.

To replicate, make a table 3 columns wide and 2 rows deep in PPT (it doesn't
matter which Table Style you set). In the top row, write some text into each
cell, and manually shade each cell a different color (in mine I used red for
the left cell, then green, then yellow on the right). Copy all three cells,
then try to paste into the second row of the table. In past versions of PPT,
everything would copy (text, font, text color, text justification, and cell
color), however in PPT 2007 the cell background color does not transfer from
the copied cells to the new pasted cells, and I cannot figure out how to
transfer the colors from the first row to the second row without manually
setting all three cells in the second row to match the first row.

I think it has something to do with the new Table Style functionality. I
wish I could just make a plain table with no pre-set Table Style.