Power Point Slides Change Color After Importing

I built a lot of training material (22 Captivate
modules/movies)- Power Point slides for text, mixed with software
simulations. Several of the modules need updating, however, since
we upgraded from Office XP to Office 2007, I have been unsuccesful
in importing the edited Power Point slides. Instead of the gradient
pale-blue background with black text (as it appears in my Captivate
movies as well as in Power Point) the moment you choose your slides
to import into Captivate, they become purple with teal text. I had
a co-worker access my files on a share drive and attempt it on her
machine, with the same result.
Anyone else having Captivate anomolies after upgrading to
Office 2007?

I have also had inconsistent results with PowerPoint imports
in both Captivate 1 and 2. There seem to be less in version 2. The
problem that I have been experiencing is with fonts. I will have a
slide that clearly is within the frame in PowerPoint, but when
imported into Captivate flows off the bottom of the slide. This is
also incosistent from slide to slide. Here's what I have been
doing. It's isn't ideal, but hopefully time will get this issued
ironed out.
1) I go through my normal import procedures for PowerPoint
presentations by look closely at the thumbnails provided before the
final import. If it looks like there is going to be a problem, then
I bail out at this point.
2) I go back into PowerPoint, call up my presentation, and
the do a File > Save As> and then select the file type at the
bottom as JPEG. It will then ask you if you want to save all. I put
them in another directory and PowerPoint saves each slide image as
an individual JPEG image.
3) I go back to Captivate and import these as images in the
file creation sequence.
This usually results in a pretty clean set of slide.
Hope this helps.
Greg

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