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

ID: Q157786

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

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.

CAUSE

This behavior is a design change in the enhanced drawing abilities in PowerPoint 97.

Additional query words: 97 8.00 ppt8 power point w_powerpt 98 powerpnt ppt

Keywords          : kbusage kbdraw 
Version           : WINDOWS:97; MACINTOSH:98
Platform          : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Hardware          : MAC x86
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: September 18, 1998