Yes, that worked. I also discovered that I could place the object text file
and fill in the background with white the same way I could change the color
of the rectangle, so I deleted the rectangle. Thank you.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?a2F0aHJ5bmdyaWZmaW4xOTYy?=,

I am using Office XP Professional. I am in the process of creating a new
form for my company (over 10,000 users of this form are expected). I want to
create a powerpoint presentation of this form. However, when I place the
individual pages of the form into powerpoint, the background design from PP
shows through. I know I can fill in the table with a white fill, which will
not allow the PP background to show through, but that only works on the table
sections of the form, not on the areas outside the table.

How about placing a rectangle on the PPT slide and positioning it "behind" the
text?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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