in PPT2007 running on Vista business when I create animation the font becomes
ugly, kind of jagged. I have several different groups of text. Never had
this issue in the PPT2003 on XP but now my presentations look amatuerish.
How do I fix this? I've even tried changing the text into pictures as a work
around but the quality isn't good enough.

I saw in ppt 2003 there was an issue with the text being changed in bmp's in
the animation in graphs, but this is just simple text boxes.

I even tried reloading Office from the disc.

Hi

Have a read of this:
Animated text goes jagged in Screen Show
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00510.htm

I saw a neat trick in 2007: convert text to wordart by selecting text box ->
drawing tools -> format -> select a wordart style from the selection. Or is
that what you mean by 'converted to picture'?

Lucy

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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au


"nygrump" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> in PPT2007 running on Vista business when I create animation the font
> becomes
> ugly, kind of jagged. I have several different groups of text. Never had
> this issue in the PPT2003 on XP but now my presentations look amatuerish.
> How do I fix this? I've even tried changing the text into pictures as a
> work
> around but the quality isn't good enough.
>
> I saw in ppt 2003 there was an issue with the text being changed in bmp's
> in
> the animation in graphs, but this is just simple text boxes.
>
> I even tried reloading Office from the disc.

On the menu bar,Click Slide Show. Look for Set Up Show.
If it doesn't appear, click on the arrow facing downwards which will show
the full menu.
Click Set Up Show. The Set Up Show dialog box will appear. Right at the
bottom, you will see "Use hardware graphics acceleration". Put a checkmark on
it and click ok.
See if the text is still jagged this time round.

"nygrump" wrote:

> in PPT2007 running on Vista business when I create animation the font becomes
> ugly, kind of jagged. I have several different groups of text. Never had
> this issue in the PPT2003 on XP but now my presentations look amatuerish.
> How do I fix this? I've even tried changing the text into pictures as a work
> around but the quality isn't good enough.
>
> I saw in ppt 2003 there was an issue with the text being changed in bmp's in
> the animation in graphs, but this is just simple text boxes.
>
> I even tried reloading Office from the disc.

Thank you for these suggestions, I will definitely give them a try.

I did some further tests and in a fresh document started from scratch I
don't seem to have the issue, although I didn't do any extensive editing like
I would in a normal ppt. I'm going to try and start from scratch - which will
involve extra work I'd like to avoid - I'm guessing the glitch is coming from
repeated use in 2003XP/2007Vista environments on different machines - going
back and forth just doesn't help the situation. There may also be an issue
in that I have grouped the text boxes together that I am animating.