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PPT: Presentation Contains Blank Boxes If Saved as 4.0

Article ID: 138252

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q138252

SYMPTOMS

After you save a PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0 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 7.0 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.

MORE INFORMATION

PowerPoint 7.0 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 a PowerPoint 4.0 or 3.0 file.

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