Article: Q135559
Product(s): Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbenv kbgraphic
Last Modified: 11-JUL-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c
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SUMMARY
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The following information describes how many colors (and what color depths) are
available in Microsoft PowerPoint.
MORE INFORMATION
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Internally, PowerPoint stores color information for every object using 24- bit
(16.7 million colors) color definitions. Therefore, if you insert a graphic that
contains 16.7 million colors, and you display it using a 24-bit display driver,
you see all the colors.
However, when you run a PowerPoint slide show on a system that has a 256- color
display driver, PowerPoint performs Palette Management. This means that
PowerPoint sends a palette to the display driver that contains the 256 colors
that it needs the most at that one time, and that PowerPoint can send a
different palette to the display driver whenever it deems it necessary (usually
when changing a slide).
As long as you are running a color depth of greater than 256 colors, you won't
have to worry about running out of colors. If you are running a color depth of
256 colors, and you have enough different graphics and gradients on a single
slide so that the slide requires more than 256 separate colors to display, you
may experience color loss, with or without an error message.
REFERENCES
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For further information, click the Windows 95 Start button, click Help, and
search on the following words:
display
color palette, changing
color, changing the number of
Additional query words: 3.00 4.00 4.00a 7.00 ppt95 power point powerpnt winppt
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Keywords : kbenv kbgraphic
Technology : kbPowerPtSearch kbPowerPt95 kbZNotKeyword2 kbPowerPt95Search kbPowerPt400 kbPowerPt300 kbPowerPt400c kbPowerPt400a
Version : WINDOWS:3.0,4.0,4.0a,4.0c,7.0
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