text not changing color with slide design change

[booksrus]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

For my presentation, I want to be able to alternate between using 2 different slide masters, depending on the lighting in the room. One slide master has a dark background with light text, the other has light background with dark text. I saved the slide masters as design templates, so I choose one or the other through Format/Slide Design menu. However, when I choose the dark background design, only some of the text changes to the light color. Some stays black. If there are 2 text boxes on a page, one might be light, the other dark. Within a text box, some text might be light, some dark. The light background design works fine. There are no objects on the slide master. What am I doing wrong?
(In case it's not obvious, I am not an experienced ppt user.)

 

[David Marcovitz]

Generally, the changes that to the colors in the slide design only affect
text that is in placeholders (those boxes that say "click here to add
text"). Text that is placed in a newly created textbox won't be affected by
the change that you made.
--David
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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland