Problems with Text box

[rachman3]

I'm using a corporate sanctioned presentation template created by someone in
my company. (Nearly impossible to find out by whom.) The problem is
whenever I create a new text box from that template it displays the font
sizes incorrectly inside of that text box. They're much smaller than they
should be, and the bottom of characters are clipped when editing the text in
the box.

Also, the characters remain clipped until you move to another slide and then
return to the original slide. I can copy a text box from any standard
PowerPoint presentation into this company sanctioned presentation, and the
text in that text box displays correctly. But I'd like to be able to use the
text box icon in the task bar whenever I need to create a text box, as vs.
copying a text box from some other presentation. Somehow the default
behavior of the Powerpoint text box have been altered to make it a bloody
pain to use. Can someone tell me how I can restore the default behavior,
apart from recreating the entire template?

Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

http://tinyurl.com/6y4z6 may help.

 

[rachman3]

Appreciate the quick response. My problem is not in defining the appropriate
font size in the Text box. It's the way the font is "displaying" in the text
box. The font size onscreen actually appears smaller than it should. For
example I need to change the point size of Verdana in the Text box (in this
corporate sanctioned template) to 32 for it to display the same size as
Vendana point size 28 in a standard Powerpoint Text box.

rachman3

http://tinyurl.com/6y4z6 may help.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I'm using a corporate sanctioned presentation template created by someone in
my company. (Nearly impossible to find out by whom.) The problem is
whenever I create a new text box from that template it displays the font
sizes incorrectly inside of that text box. They're much smaller than they
should be, and the bottom of characters are clipped when editing the text in
the box.

Also, the characters remain clipped until you move to another slide and then
return to the original slide. I can copy a text box from any standard
PowerPoint presentation into this company sanctioned presentation, and the
text in that text box displays correctly. But I'd like to be able to use the
text box icon in the task bar whenever I need to create a text box, as vs.
copying a text box from some other presentation. Somehow the default
behavior of the Powerpoint text box have been altered to make it a bloody
pain to use. Can someone tell me how I can restore the default behavior,
apart from recreating the entire template?

Thanks.

 

[Echo S]

Something's weird, then, as that shouldn't be happening.

Oh, wait. Is this actually a text placeholder? Do you have the autofit
options turned on in PPT? Go to Tools/Autocorrect Options, and on the
"autoformat as you type" tab, turn off (deselect) "autofit body text to
placeholder."

That should take care of it on your system, but it won't necessarily solve
the problem for other users as this is a machine-specific setting (as
opposed to a presentation- or template-specific setting).

Or if this is truly a manual textbox, then check your line spacing settings.
The line shouldn't be smaller than .75 (preferably .8) lines. And also check
to make sure you haven't set the font as a superscript or something. Oh, and
double-click the textbox and head to the TextBox tab -- what are the
internal margins set to?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Appreciate the quick response. My problem is not in defining the appropriate
font size in the Text box. It's the way the font is "displaying" in the text
box. The font size onscreen actually appears smaller than it should. For
example I need to change the point size of Verdana in the Text box (in this
corporate sanctioned template) to 32 for it to display the same size as
Vendana point size 28 in a standard Powerpoint Text box.

rachman3

http://tinyurl.com/6y4z6 may help.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I'm using a corporate sanctioned presentation template created by

someone
in

my company. (Nearly impossible to find out by whom.) The problem is
whenever I create a new text box from that template it displays the font
sizes incorrectly inside of that text box. They're much smaller than they
should be, and the bottom of characters are clipped when editing the

text
in

the box.

Also, the characters remain clipped until you move to another slide

and
then

return to the original slide. I can copy a text box from any standard
PowerPoint presentation into this company sanctioned presentation, and the
text in that text box displays correctly. But I'd like to be able to

use
the

text box icon in the task bar whenever I need to create a text box, as vs.
copying a text box from some other presentation. Somehow the default
behavior of the Powerpoint text box have been altered to make it a bloody
pain to use. Can someone tell me how I can restore the default behavior,
apart from recreating the entire template?

Thanks.

 

[JGT]

I think you are not addressing the real issue. I think I have the same issue.
I insert a text box. If I click Format > Line Spacing I see that it is set
to .65. When I do the same for a new PPT file the value is 1. How do I change
the "default" value from .65 to "1". I know how to change it each time I
create the text box but I should be able to create the text box and the line
spacing is automatically 1 or whatever value I want.

 

[Echo S]

Actually, I am addressing the issue.

For *your* problem -- which may or may not be the same as the original
poster's problem* -- you want to change the (manual) textbox default on the
presentation. And for that matter, you can do it on all your templates,
including Blank.POT and/or Blank Presentation.POT so that when you apply
them to your PPT files the manual textbox will already be set.

What you do is set up a textbox the way you want it. Then right-click and
select Set Autoshapes Default. But be sure to read the post I mentioned in
my first response to this thread. http://tinyurl.com/6y4z6 (It's the
response from me that discusses textbox and autoshape defaults.) As I said
there, you will want to set an actual *autoshape* default *after* you set
the manual textbox default.

*Based on the two different descriptions and symptoms that are being
described, it's hard to tell if your problem is indeed the same as the
original poster's. Right at the moment it seems to me that they are probably
different.

 

[JGT]

OK this resolved my issue (BIG THANKS)

Yes I was having a problem with the manual text box (Insert > Text Box).
This is what I thought the original poster was trying resolve as well. Darn,
is this discussed in the PowerPoint help file? I must have looked in the darn
help file at least 20 times. I have office 2003 and almost went nuts (perhaps
I did) trying to find this solution and it was so darn simple (most things
are when you understand them). I also looked in my copy of Office 2003 Inside
Out but I could not find anything on it.. Darn I'm blown away by how simple
the solution is.

 

[Echo S]

OK this resolved my issue (BIG THANKS)

You're very welcome. I'm glad we got it resolved!

Yes I was having a problem with the manual text box (Insert > Text Box).
This is what I thought the original poster was trying resolve as well.

And you know, it may well be the original poster's problem, too, but it's
harder to tell based on that person's description. Gut feeling is telling me
it's different, but I don't know for sure.

The important thing is that you gave enough information on what *you* are
experiencing (even when tagging onto another similar post) that we were able
to get to the bottom of your problem. Thank you for that! Often when people
post "I'm having the same problem," it turns out that it's a different
problem but they didn't give us enough information to go on to determine
that right away!

Darn,
is this discussed in the PowerPoint help file? I must have looked in the darn
help file at least 20 times. I have office 2003 and almost went nuts (perhaps
I did) trying to find this solution and it was so darn simple (most things
are when you understand them). I also looked in my copy of Office 2003 Inside
Out but I could not find anything on it.. Darn I'm blown away by how simple
the solution is.

Wow, you really did your homework! I'm sorry that it took you so long to
find a place with a solution.

I don't know if this is covered in the Help file, but I suspect it's not.
What are some of the keywords/phrases you used when searching Help? I can
ping a contact at MS, and I would bet we can get a Help article added since
we now realize the information's not readily available. I know that part of
the problem is the wording of the command ("set *autoshape* default") and
the fact that it works on both autoshapes and on textboxes -- but of course,
you now also know that it works *separately* on those. It's just all-around
confusing. Ugh.

Books like Inside Out, For Dummies, the Bible series, etc., usually don't
cover stuff like this for some reason. I was going to say it's a
troubleshooting issue and troubleshooting's not usually covered in those
books, but I guess I never really thought about it before -- setting default
manual textbox really isn't a troubleshooting issue, is it? I'll try to get
something on this added to the Help files.