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PPT: Lotus 1-2-3 Chart Object Fill Colors Lost in PowerPoint

Article ID: 112524

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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SYMPTOMS

If you insert a Lotus 1-2-3 version 4.0 or 5.0 object into PowerPoint 7.0 or PowerPoint 97 using the Insert menu, clicking Object and clicking Create from file, you see a solid black box where your image should be.

If you insert a Lotus 1-2-3 version 4.0 or 5.0 object into PowerPoint 4.0, 7.0, or PowerPoint 97 using Copy and Paste, the fill colors are lost. For example, the area inside the bars of a bar chart lose their color.

CAUSE

This is because Lotus 1-2-3 versions 4.0 and 5.0 put device-dependent information in the metafiles it uses to represent its objects. The Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) recommends that you do not use device- dependent information in metafiles.

PowerPoint recognizes that the information provided is device-dependent so it simply ignores the information to prevent any future problems when using that object in PowerPoint.

This problem has been reported to Lotus by Microsoft development.

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