Ppt 97 fonts change when "Send To" is used

[dale662]

I'm trying to send slides to Word 97 using Send To. However, the
received slides use Times New Roman for their bullet points, and a
different size, rather than the original Arial. Also, the images are
messed up.

Is there an easy fix for this, or will I be forced to invest in a later
version of Office or something?

Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

I don't know of a sure-fire fix for this, but I have had it happen, so
you're definitely not dreaming!

One thing that seems to help is to choose Paste Link in the Send to|Word
dialog box, and then once in Word, CTRL+A to select all and Edit|Links|Break
Links.

 

[dale662]

Thanks, I've already tried this, Echo. Unfortunately, since I
"upgraded" to XP Home I've had nothing but problems. And I'm not a
neophyte, either, having been using these machines since 1981!

I'm thinking of switching over to Acrobat now, to see if they'll output
the files as a pdf.

 

[Echo S]

Thanks, I've already tried this, Echo. Unfortunately, since I
"upgraded" to XP Home I've had nothing but problems. And I'm not a
neophyte, either, having been using these machines since 1981!

I'm thinking of switching over to Acrobat now, to see if they'll output
the files as a pdf.

Bummer. I was hoping that would take care of it for you.

PPT 97 and 2000 send WMFs to Word, whereas PPT 2002 and 2003 send EMFs. I
believe I have had fewer problems with the fonts changing in 2002 and 2003,
but the problem is not totally gone. I believe that resources also tend to
have something to do with it, but I may be dreaming with that.

 

[dale662]

It only happened a couple of times out of 7 since. Besides, I realized
that the converted files were causing the gray boxes of doom on my
Framemaker files.

Now, if I use jpg files as illustrations, I don't have the dreaded gray
box appear in place of graphics. And I just realized I can save the PPT
presentation as wmf graphics, then batch convert those over to jpg with
Paintshop Pro--although a few of them don't come out because of a "lack
of memory" or something--although I have 584M of RAM.

I also realized that the reason I kept getting "out of memory" errors
is that Word and PPT were putting huge temp files in the Documents and
Settings folder on the C drive. I think next time I'll just save the
wmf files, and convert them. Then I'll plug the appropriate graphics
into a vanilla Word doc; using the Send To command in Powerpoint
generates enormous files, like 600M and up.