Powerpoint Object color change on import

[AfternoonBlend]

I see that people had a similar issue years ago, but I'm experiencing the same thing, just starting today.

When I import a presentation into captivate, or update a presentation, Shapes throughout the presentation have a 0-50% chance of  change color from whatever I have them set as to black outline with a light blue fill. I can usually fix it by reopening the powerpoint and making changes and updating it, but there is a chance it will change colors elsewhere.  I have been able to go back and forth a few time and get everything right, but this adds on to the amount of time it takes to do what used to be a very simple operation.

Does anyone know if this might be a powerpoint issue rather than Captivate? I'm checking with IT to see if/when updates were pushed for MS Office.

I'm running Captivate 7.0.1.237 (for at least the last two months) on Windows 7 with PowerPoint 2007.

[AfternoonBlend]

It only seems to happen on shapes converted to a textbox, or textboxes with a fill and outline color. If I create a shape and then a sepaerate textbox, I don't seem to have the trouble.

I'm considering opening the template I use in ppt and saving it as a series of images, then just using the template as a background image...

[kkey1978]

I am having the same problem. If changed to no fill all is good, but I need to be able to have a fill color that I can control.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Are you saving from PPT as a PPTX file? If so, be sure you enable the "High Fidelity" option when you import.

Cheers... Rick

[kkey1978]

Yes, I imprted it using High Fidelity. But, this started me thinking about the fact that I think it occurs after editing the slide from Captivate. After right clicking on the slide > selecting Edit with Microsoft PowerPoint > Find Presentation in Library (or selecting it in the library if you know what file it is in the Library) and right click on it then use Import to re-import it all was good. I guess when editing through Captivate it does not use High Fidelity to pull in back in???

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

I'd say that's quite possible.

Because there really isn't much you can do with edting slides after the import has been done, I much prefer any editing to basically cause the existing Captivate to be scrapped and a new import to occur.

And if you find yourself backed into a corner with Captivate and wanting to add this or that, it's a better approach to just bite the bullet and carefully craft a Captivate project that looks like the PPT but has nothing to do with PPT.

Cheers... Rick