Help: Need color bars to not print, but to remain seen on a monito

Our current corporate PPT template has a full color cover page and on each
subsequent page has two thick blue bars (one at the top where we place our
headline text and one at the bottom with our logo and the page number). When
printing in color, how can I get the blue bars to not show up on the print
out but to remain on the on-screen version. It is important that the cover
page remain full color, we just want to save toner on the subsequent pages.
In addition to removing the blue bars, I would need to be able to make sure
that the text printed on top of the blue bars then prints black (rather than
white).

I am working in PowerPoint 2003.

You might be able to make a special color scheme that changes those blue
bars to white and the white text to black. Then apply that, print, and
reapply the original.

Personally, I'd probably just save the file with a new name and go into the
masters and delete the bars and change that text placeholder from white to
black. That's probably just as fast as most other methods (besides running
code that does this, of course).

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"Island_grrl" wrote in message
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Our current corporate PPT template has a full color cover page and on each
subsequent page has two thick blue bars (one at the top where we place our
headline text and one at the bottom with our logo and the page number).
When
printing in color, how can I get the blue bars to not show up on the print
out but to remain on the on-screen version. It is important that the cover
page remain full color, we just want to save toner on the subsequent
pages.
In addition to removing the blue bars, I would need to be able to make
sure
that the text printed on top of the blue bars then prints black (rather
than
white).

I am working in PowerPoint 2003.