I am using PP 2010 from Office Home Office & Business 2010. I have an existing PP presentation that I use and revise for teaching. On any slide, if I copy a text box and paste it into that slide to create another text box, the text is inserted with all text underlined. I do not want that to happen as I then have to go in and change the unerlining. If I type additional text into the pasted text box, it too is underlined and I have to change it. Can anyone tell me how to stop the automatic underlining of the pasted text?

On your master slide, is the default text box for body copy set to be underlined text? Pasted text will take on the attributes of the master slide formatting.

On the Master Slide, the text box is not in underlined format. If I insert a new text box the text in it is not underlined. But if I copy a text box and then paste it, the text in the pasted box is underlined. That is so wether the Smart Cut & Paste is on or off. I can't figure out why the paste command changes the copied text box to be underlined.

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.

Yep I've seen that before with text from earlier versions but I'm not sure why it happens.

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