Text formatting difficulties in PowerPoint 2002

[Tucker]

I'm having a couple difficulties in PowerPoint

1. I would like to lock the way a slide looks so that when I email it or someone downloads it, it looks exactly the way I intended it, apart from settings that the user may have. My problem - people view a slide that's been created one way, but the text enlarges and changes font and the objects shift around. It may be their personal settings that cause this, but I can't create my slides to accomodate their settings

2. Sometimes when I paste a slide from one presentation to another, the same kind of problem happens that I've listed above - the text size and font changes, objects shift around, etc. It's pretty frustrating when I have multiple slides to paste in to go change every single one. This might be related to the problem above...like a settings option I've not selected

Thanks for your help
Tucker

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Tucker,

Welcome to powerpoint.

Some good bedtime reading

(1) Sounds like fonts not available on the other users PCs
(1) Could also be powerpoint xp/2002 has a "make my slides consistent tickbox...and a "shrink my text to make it fit
feature". So turn them both off.
Make sure my chosen fonts are available
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00256.htm



Troubleshoot font problems
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00402.htm





(2) The joys of multiple masters
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm


Cheers

TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
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[Tucker]

I appreciate the help, but the problem may be simpler than I previously stated. I'm just trying to copy a text box from one slide to another within the SAME presentation...and then the text goes all wacky. That seems to be a bug of some sort or some option I've mis-selected. Thanks again for any help you can give.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Tucker,

That sounds like the "powerpoint trying to be helpful feature" and failing.

When you paste the information....does a little grey box appear just below the pasted object.
If it does...click it and choose either "match destination" or "keep formatting" or whatever those 2 options are.

Cheers
TAJ

 

[Tucker]

Great, thanks!