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Scott - 10 Dec 2005 00:58 GMT

This has been touched on in past posts here, but I don't think it's been
quite answered.

A friend of mine with PowerPoint 2004 created an equation using Insert
Object. When she chooses View>Grayscale, the text of the equation turns
into black rectangles. She emailed me the file, and I get the same thing
on my system (both running Tiger).

I'm sure it's not a printer driver issue (as suggested in one older
post); that would be a heck of a coincidence for us both a problem like
that, and the rectangles appear on-screen, not only on the printed page.

She doesn't want to upgrade to MathType. We both have all of the Office
updates. And it seems that others have reported a problem like this; see,
<http://www.versiontracker.com/users/joinerm>
currently the top-most comments.

Here's what it looks like, in grayscale:
<http://homepage.mac.com/scott_r/Picture%202.png>

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Steve Rindsberg - 10 Dec 2005 18:16 GMT

> This has been touched on in past posts here, but I don't think it's been
> quite answered.
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> post); that would be a heck of a coincidence for us both a problem like
> that, and the rectangles appear on-screen, not only on the printed page.

If nothing else, it proves that the Preview feature's doing a good job of
predicting the printed results.

Here's what you want to try:

While in Grayscale view, Ctrl+Click/Rightclick the object, click Grayscale
Settings on the popup menu and try the different options until you find one
that looks good on screen.

It should print that way to b/w printers; the choices you make here will have
no effect on how PPT prints in color.

> She doesn't want to upgrade to MathType. We both have all of the Office
> updates. And it seems that others have reported a problem like this; see,
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Here's what it looks like, in grayscale:
> <http://homepage.mac.com/scott_r/Picture%202.png>

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Scott - 11 Dec 2005 01:07 GMT

> If nothing else, it proves that the Preview feature's doing a good job of
> predicting the printed results.

Preview feature? This happens in View>Normal... or were you referring to
something else besides Print Preview?

> Here's what you want to try:
>
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> have
> no effect on how PPT prints in color.

Not a single setting helps. The only difference is in what *way* it's
unreadable--lighter rectangles, or completely invisible.

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Steve Rindsberg - 11 Dec 2005 17:10 GMT

> > If nothing else, it proves that the Preview feature's doing a good job of
> > predicting the printed results.
>
> Preview feature? This happens in View>Normal... or were you referring to
> something else besides Print Preview?

Sorry ... forgot that there's also a preview feature NAMED "Preview". Duh.
No, I just meant Grayscale view, which is also a kind of preview of what'll
happen to your slides when printed to a b/w printer.

> > Here's what you want to try:
> >
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> Not a single setting helps. The only difference is in what *way* it's
> unreadable--lighter rectangles, or completely invisible.

Rats. You may need to ungroup the things and do some heavy shape-by-shape
editing on them in that case.

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Equation Editor problems