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powerpoint on mac - all slides are black with white text, how to change to white with black text?

Anonymous
2022-06-02T10:53:31+00:00

Powerpoint 16.61 on MacOS 12.4

For some unknown reason, all "new slides" are black background with white text. Clicking on new slide icon in home ribbon also only shows back slides.

Every time we insert a new slide, we have to manually change the background from black to white.

Every text box we add, we have to manually change the text colour to white.

How can we fix this, so that we get back to normal white pages with black text?

We see there is an option to "apply to all" the background colour, but there doesnt seem to be a similar option for text colour.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-06-02T21:09:16+00:00

    on my old mac, when I open powerpoint, and create a new blank presentation, the page is shows is white with black text. If I insert a new slide, it is white with black text. This is normal. This how powerpoint has been for at least 10 years on all platforms. If l click on view-> slide master, all slides are white.

    However, on my new mac, since today, all new blank presentations always get black slides with white text. If I insert a new slide, it is black background with white text. If I click on view-slide master, all slides are black. Before today it was fine.

    I have no idea how powerpoint got "broken" on this mac, as I have never created a slide with a black background.

    Any new presentation I create has all back pages. I need to find a way to fix it - go back to the "normal" white slides.

    I guess one option might be to delete powerpoint, and reinstall it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-06-03T15:10:53+00:00

    Hi nutmix,

    Thanks for posting back and sharing these detailed information with us.

    We understand the issue only appears on your new Mac.

    For further troubleshooting, we want to confirm that if you open PowerPoint Preferences by clicking PowerPoint meme from upper-left corner, click Preferences, click General, can you find the Personalize section? If yes, is "Turn off Dark Mode" selected?

    And before reinstall PowerPoint, we want to help you do more troubleshooting and we would appreciate if you could share following information with us, they will be very helpful to us to further investigate the issue.

    1.Please share screenshots about "all new blank presentations always get black slides with white text.  If I insert a new slide, it is black background with white text. ".

    2.Does the same situation appear in other Office apps? (Word, Excel)

    Thanks for your patience and understanding!

    Sincerely,

    Tina | Microsoft Community Moderator

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-02T14:36:14+00:00

    Dear nutmix,

    Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community.

    According to your description, all slides are black with white text in your PowerPoint for Mac, you want to use normal white pages with black text.

    For troubleshooting, we need more detailed information about the situation you are experiencing.

    Appreciate your understanding that sometimes the initial reply may not resolve the problem very soon. However, we can work together to narrow down the situation. Please kindly provide more information to let us work further.

    1.You mentioned all "new slides" are black background with white text, Could you share some screenshots about the situation in your PowerPoint?

    2.Does the issue appear in a specific presentation or different presentations? If you create a new presentation, insert a new slide, does same situation still happen?

    3.Did the issue appear before? If not, when does it start to happen? Is there any change made in PowerPoint or Mac before issue appears?

    We appreciate your patience and understanding! Hope you have a nice day and stay safe!

    Sincerely,

    Tina | Microsoft Community Moderator

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