PowerPoint Custom Object Fills and Word's Picture Editor
Article ID: 155484
Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
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SYMPTOMS
If you use Word's picture editor to edit a non-rectangular object
created in PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 that contains one
of PowerPoint's custom fills, the fill takes on a rectangular shape
outside of the original object's boundaries.
CAUSE
This happens to non-rectangular PowerPoint 7.0 objects when they contain
fills that are not solid colors or patterns. This happens when the
PowerPoint 7.0 object is copied and pasted, or dragged and dropped into a
Word 7.0 document. The picture editor in Word does not correctly process
the custom fills created by PowerPoint tools.
RESOLUTION
If you need to edit a non-rectangular PowerPoint drawing object, copy and
paste it into PowerPoint. Edit the object in PowerPoint, then copy and
paste it 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.
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