PPT98: Presentation Contains Blank Boxes if Saved as 4.0 File
Article ID: 188909
Article Last Modified on 10/3/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q188909
SYMPTOMS
After you save a PowerPoint 98 presentation as a PowerPoint 3.0 or 4.0
presentation, two rectangles are placed near the bottom of the slide. These
rectangles are located in approximately the same place as Headers and
Footers in a PowerPoint 98 presentation.
These objects are visible only when a selection box is drawn over them
or when you click Select All on the Edit menu.
CAUSE
This behavior is a side effect of the translation process. If a
slide contains a header or footer in these positions, the object
is a text box containing the text of the header and footer.
RESOLUTION
You can delete these objects safely. Their presence does not harm the
presentation and their absence has no effect on the integrity of the
presentation.
MORE INFORMATION
PowerPoint 98 automatically places a page number field on every page when
page numbers are being used. These fields are translated as text boxes when
the presentation is saved in an earlier version format. Again, it is safe
to edit or remove these as necessary after translation to PowerPoint 4.0
or 3.0 format.
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