PPT97: Format Painter Lost Trying To Apply Text Style to Shape

SYMPTOMS

If you select some text, click the Format Painter tool and then click a drawing object that has no text, your pointer changes to a Move pointer (four-headed arrow). This behavior is different from PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0, which displays a paintbrush pointer until you click an object that contains text or until you click an unoccupied part of your slide.