Powerpoint - Recolor option for images

[Richard Schollar]

In PPT2003 I would frequently copy a table out of Excel (as a picture/image, not as an embedded Excel range/worksheet) and plonk it on a PPT slide. I would then right-click on the picture of the table in PPT and select the option to Format Picture and then in the dialog that opens I would hit the Recolor button. This was great because it wqould let me specify an individual colour to modify from say black in the image to my corporate colour.

Moving on to ppt2007 I no longer seem to have this option: I get as far as hitting Recolor and then I get options to change the colour scheme but not individual colours in the image as I had before.

Is there any way to modify just individual colours as I had before?

 

[RoryA]

No, I don't think so. See point 12 on Echo Swinford's site here. (at least I assume that's her!)

 

[Richard Schollar]

That's a seriously backward step in my opinion

The ppt devs have just returned to the top of my sh*tlist

 

[RoryA]

Can't you just recolour it before you copy it?

 

[Richard Schollar]

Yes, but I send these files on to other people who compile them up into great big ppt presentations. If they decide they don't like a colour they'll just send it back to me rather than doing it themselves

 

[RoryA]

I must be missing your point there?

 

[Richard Schollar]

1. I copy table over to ppt.
2. I send ppt on to 3rd party
3. 3rd party says "Richard, we want to change the colour scheme - make it so"
4. I change colour scheme in Excel
5. I copy it back across to ppt
6. I send it back to 3rd party

Make more sense now?

 

[RoryA]

Jean-Luc Picard does your Powerpoint work? Cool.

Can't you use 2003?

 

[Richard Schollar]

Yes - that's what I am doing but if the great people in IT go for an Office upgrade they will undoubtedly remove prior versions of the applications (to keep licensing costs down). It would annoy me to be stuck with ppt2007

 

[RoryA]

Tell third party that colouring-in in Powerpoint is not your job?