PPT97: Colors and Shaded Fills Dither in PowerPoint

ID: Q189824

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When working in Slide View, you may notice colors dithering (breaking down into pixels or bands of color) when you fill an object with a solid or shaded fill.

This problem occurs when the color depth of your display settings is 256 colors or less.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the colors are dithered in Slide View. This provides faster screen redraw. When you view the slide show and your display is running at 256 colors, the colors and gradients do not dither.

RESOLUTION

To smooth the shaded fills, start the on-screen slide show.

NOTE: If your display adapter supports color depths greater than 256 colors, you can increase your display color setting to prevent colors from dithering in Slide View.

For more information about changing the color depth setting in Windows 95, click the Index tab in Windows 95 Help, type the following text

   colors, number of colors, changing

and then double-click the selected text to go to the "To change the number of colors your monitor displays" topic.

Additional query words: 8.00 ppt8 PPT95 dotted speckly halftoned

Keywords          : kbusage
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 21, 1998