Opening PPT 2003 Slides in PPT 2000

[Guest]

Hi,

I've run into a problem opening a presentation created using Powerpoint
2003. I'm trying to open the presentation using Powerpoint 2000.

When I open the presentation, the text box on a couple of the slides doesn't
fit vertically on the slide and hangs over the bottom of the slide. The
presentation has also been saved as PPT 97-2003 format and the problem still
exists.

The problem does not present itself when opened by another user using
Powerpoint 2003.

Any ideas what's happening?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Sonia]

You've probably used a font in the presentation that isn't available on the
other system. Therefore, PowerPoint substitutes another font and causes a
re-sizing of the text boxes.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Sounds more like a font problem; the text box uses a font installed on the
PPT 2003 machine, but it is not on the PPT 2000 machine and substitutes it
with a 'default' font, which is not the same size and reflows the text.

On the PPT 2000 machine go to FORMAT >> REPLACE FONTS. Do any of the fonts
listed have brackets around them (indicates font is missing on this
machine)?

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
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A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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[Guest]

Thanks for the replies.

It doesn't appear to be a font issue. The presetation uses Arial and when I
go to Format->Replace fonts, none of the fonts have brackets around them.
Any other ideas?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

It doesn't appear to be a font issue. The presetation uses Arial and when I
go to Format->Replace fonts, none of the fonts have brackets around them.
Any other ideas?

I'm not sure about the brackets; it may be the myopia, it may be the
astigmatism, it may be my version of PPT but I see question marks (?) next to
fonts that PPT needs but that aren't available when I check Format, Replace
Fonts.

Have another peek at that, would you? Thanks.