Text overfow, on placeholders

[Clayton]

I have PP 2003. For some reason any PPT file that someone sends me that has
placeholders in the presentation the text inside the box (placeholder)
overflows the box itself. I can send this ppt file to anyone in the office
and it looks great on theirs. The text does not shrink with the box. Is there
some default setting that I can reset. I am totally patched and up to date.
Did the detect repair option and re-installed? Please help I am desperate.

Thanks

 

[Echo S]

I have PP 2003. For some reason any PPT file that someone sends me
that has placeholders in the presentation the text inside the box
(placeholder) overflows the box itself. I can send this ppt file to
anyone in the office and it looks great on theirs. The text does not
shrink with the box. Is there some default setting that I can reset.
I am totally patched and up to date. Did the detect repair option and
re-installed? Please help I am desperate.

Check under Format/Replace Fonts. Do you see ? beside any of the fonts? If
so, it's not available on your machine and so PPT is substituting a font,
which is causing the text to overflow the box because it's not the same size
as the intended font.

 

[Clayton]

Echo,

Thanks so much for the response. I did like you said and there were no ? by
the fonts. But unbelievably they all started working correctly. I don't know
what happen unless I toggled something. So it got me to thinking about the
font arial.ttf which was the problematic font. So I removed the font from
windows and re-installed it and so far it hasn't come back with moving the
text out of the box. I can't thank you enough for getting me on track.

Thanks
Clayton

 

[Echo S]

Wow, gotta love those kind of fixes -- if it starts acting up again, holler
back.

Echo