Article ID: 168506
Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q168506
SYMPTOMS
When you click Speaker Notes on the View menu, any text that was
previously entered in the Speaker Notes dialog box, is selected
(highlighted). If you begin typing, the selection will be deleted.
Clicking Undo on the Edit menu does not restore the deleted text.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem and prevent the lost of any text, press the
Right Arrow key or click at the end of the text in the Speaker Notes
box.
To recover the text if you typed over the selection, immediately press
CTRL+Z. If you close and then reopen the Speaker Notes dialog box,
pressing CTRL+Z will not restore your text.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed
at the beginning of this article.
For more information about Speaker Notes, click the Office Assistant,
type
Speaker Notes, click Search, and then click to view "Create
speaker notes and handouts."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on
the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your
computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
120802 Office: How to Add/Remove a Single Office Program or Component
Additional query words: 97 8.0 speakers notes delete highlight select selected
Keywords: kbprb kbusage KB168506