PPT97: Two Blank Boxes Appear at Bottom of Presentation
Article ID: 190395
Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q190395
SYMPTOMS
After you save a PowerPoint 97 presentation as a PowerPoint 3.0 or 4.0
presentation, two rectangles appear near the bottom of the slide. These
rectangles are located in approximately the same place as Headers and
Footers in the PowerPoint 97 version of the presentation.
These objects are visible only when you draw a selection box 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.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
PowerPoint 97 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 translating the file to
PowerPoint 4.0 or 3.0 format.
Additional query words: 8.00 Blank Objects w_powerpt powerpnt power point text frame frames extra
Keywords: kbinterop kbconversion kbprb KB190395