text not in text boxes

[ladeewzl]

I installed MS Office Standard 2007. I can create new presentations in
PowerPoint fine. When I open old presentations (existing on my computer from
Office 2000), the text appears above the text box. When I place my cursor in
the text box to type, the cursor appears in the text box, but when I type,
the words/letters appear above the text box. It is the same for tables -
where ever there is text, it appears to be floating above the corresponding
text box/cell.

Can anyone help?

 

[John Wilson]

This may sound unlikely but do you have a local printer driver installed. See
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm
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[ladeewzl]

Steve,

Your pacifier printer driver worked like a charm. However, since we have a
network printer, I can't print unless I have the network printer set as
default. As long as I don't close my presentation, I can change my printer
and print. If I leave my network printer as default, then the presentation
opens whacko. Is there a way to set my network printer as my default printer
and satisfy PPT at the same time?

Thanks for your help

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

As Steve and John point out, the PPT uses the settings from the
default printer driver to help determine how many things look. It
sounds crazy but there a underlying core code reasons in PPT for this
and I'd bet lunch that this is unlikely to change for quite some time
and even quite some more time.

What I suggest is something like this. When you open PPT to work on a
file, you switch the default printer away from the network printer and
then if you need to print something just choose the network printer to
print to since there is no other printer actually connected to the
machine. PPT just thinks there is one there.

Else, get the Network Admin to go buy your PPPT workgroup a second
printer.

Brian Reilly, MVP