By Text Box do you mean as in Insert >> TextBox or the boxes (placeholders) that say "Click to add text". People often use these terms (wrongly) interchangeably! If they are real textboxes then they don't follow the Master format anyway.



Was the presentation made in 2010 or an earlier version?

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By Text Box I mean "Insert/Text Box." The presentation waqs originally prepared in an earlier version of PP, probably 2000 or so. I have found that if I create a new presentation, from scratch in 2010, the underlining does not take place. By trial and error I just discovered that if I create a new presentation in 2010 and then use Design to browse to one of my old presentations and use that as a new template, the underlining does not happen. So now I have a work around to solve the operating problem. I still don't know why the underlining was happening with the paste, but in the new template it does not. Problem solved with a work around.