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Colour Picker - Inverted Colour Bug

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Colour Picker - Inverted Colour Bug

When using the colour picker, I experience a bug of the picker identifying and selecting the opposite colour. I've seen this bug in some forums but can't find a satisfactory resolution or work around.
Do you know of one?

RE: Colour Picker - Inverted Colour Bug

This is likely happening not because of anything in PowerPoint, but Because of your magnifier.

Try going to the settings app on your computer, and searching for your magnifier settings. Within these settings, you should see an option called 'Invert Colours'. If this is currently turned on, then turn it off.

Now go back to PowerPoint and try using the eyedropper again. You should now see that it will choose the correct colours.

PowerPoint tip:

Slide numbers in PowerPoint

Slide numbers can be applied in PowerPoint by going to View-Header and footer, then ticking the slide number box.

You can also choose the Don't show on title slide option so that slide numbers do not show on any title layout slides in the presentation.

If this option is ticked and the first slide is a title layout slide, this will mean slide 2 will be numbered as 2 rather than 1.

To change this and start slide numbering at 1 on the second slide, go to File - Page Setup and change the Number slide from: option to 0. Click OK.

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