paulgrass

I am running PPT'07. I have a color slide with a graph on it. (about 40 of them actually) The client wants cleaned up and converted to grayscale so all they have to do is send them to the printer to be printed in black and white. The problem I have is that when I convert to grayscale, most of the slide converts correctly, but any chart or graph looses pieces. They are there, but they will not appear. In past versions you could just click the individual piece an convert it, but in 2007 you can't seem to do that.

I don’t understand this; a dark slide with a graph that has white lettering should appear to have black lettering when converted to grayscale. All other text on the slide converts fine, but just not the text in the chart. You can’t even right click on the chart itself and change its grayscale settings.

I have tried all of the settings for the whole slide (automatic, grayscale, light grayscale, inverse grayscale ect, ect, ect) but none of them work they way it should.

I have given the exact same slide to other people running older versions of PPT and they have no problems at all getting the slide to convert correctly with all pieced viewable. I even had them save the slides they converted in the older versions, and then I opened them in 2007. They came up fine to view, but were not editable. Whenever I double clicked to edit them I got a warning saying "to edit this chart using the new features available in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you must first convert it to the 2007 Office system format"

Once I do that it converts back to the same original problem that we started with.

I find it hard to believe that Microsoft doesn’t have a fix for this, or is not even aware of the problem. It sickens me that I paid to upgrade to the new version and a seemingly simple task as converting to grayscale has now cost me 2 days worth of downtime.

Is there an easy fix for this to convert to grayscale in 2007, and keep it as an editable chart or graph?

paulgrass

Here is a link to a video that explains the EXACT problem.

YouTube - Microsoft Office 2007 Grayscale Problem