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PowerPoint Pattern Fills and Word's Picture Editor

Article ID: 155482

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS

If a PowerPoint 7.0 drawing object has a pattern fill and you bring the object into Word 7.0 to edit with Word's picture editor, the fill retains the object's shape but the pattern becomes a solid color.

CAUSE

This happens to PowerPoint 7.0 objects that have a pattern fill and are copied and pasted, or drag and dropped, into Word 7.0. The picture editor in Word does not correctly process the pattern fills created by PowerPoint tools.

RESOLUTION

If you must edit a pattern-filled drawing object, copy it back into PowerPoint to make the changes. Then you can copy and paste the object back into your Word document.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows.

Additional query words: w_powerpt w_ppt ppt7 ppt95 w_word word95 winword

Keywords: kbinterop kbgraphic KB155482