Hi Steve :)
I'm sorry to hear you are having a hard time with our new gradients. I'd
encourage you to send feedback to us via Help > Send Feedback and help us
understand where your particular difficulty is.
In the meantime, to obtain a light-dark-light gradient, you should click
on
the Add Color button in the Format Shape dialogue's Fill > Gradient pane.
You can then set the middle indicator to a darker colour than the other
two.
The Style and Angle/Direction controls are to allow you to further
customize
your gradient (e.g. going from dark to light horizontally across the shape
instead of vertically and the like).
I hope this helps.
- June
OfficeArt Tester, MacBU
Microsoft
On 4/21/08 8:31 PM, in article
5A9B5EF1-43F6-40FD-BBCA-FDB41C8F4453@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Steve"
<Steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> What took me about 15 seconds to do in the older version of powerpoint
now
> took me an hour and I still didn't get results..
> All i wanted was a simple vertical light-dark-light gradient, but there
are
> so many pull down menus' angles and pre-fab'd samples that I can't make
a
> simple gradient fill.
> You took a great powerpoint and just made it slower - everything about
the
> new menus adds time - before I could click and go, now its select a bar
menu
> then pull down another...
> This was a step backwards.
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