Excel content turns black and white (B&W), loses color when copy/pasted into PowerPoint

PPTools
Shape Styles brings the power of styles to PowerPoint. Apply complex formatting with a single click
Merge Excel, CSV or tab-delimited data into PowerPoint presentations to create certificates, awards presentations, personalized presentations and more
FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations
Optimizer saves disk space and bandwidth, shrinks your PowerPoint presentations to the right size for email, screenshow or printing
PPT2HTML gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements
Prep4PDF preserves interactivity in PowerPoint presentations when you convert to PDF
Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to JPG, PNG, GIF, WMF and more

Problem

You have colored text or graphics in your Excel worksheet but when you copy/paste it to PowerPoint, it gets converted to black and white.

Solution

The problem is probably that your default printer is a black and white printer.

Choose a color printer as your default printer driver before you copy/paste from Excel to PowerPoint.

Don't have a color printer? Don't worry about it. You just need to make Excel think you do.

To learn how to install a printer driver and select it as your default printer:

• How to install a local printer driver
• How to select a default printer

Another approach:

• In Excel, hold the Shift key and choose Edit from the menu. "Copy" will have changed to "Copy picture".
• In PowerPoint, use Edit - Paste special.

Contents © 1995-2008 Stephen Rindsberg, Rindsberg Photography, Inc. and members of the MS PowerPoint MVP team. You may link to this page but any form of unauthorized reproduction of this page's contents is expressly forbidden.

content authoring & site maintenance by

Friday - The Automatic FAQ Maker