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.