reuse slide changes text to "italics"

[jem1212]

On 10/2/08 bh529 asked a question with the subject "Reuse slides changes text
to underline format". Echo replied saying he/she had the same problem but the
text was changed to italics. I have the same problem but when I copied and
pasted the slide manually (echos suggestion), while keeping sorce formatting,
I still wind up with italics.

I am trying to insert a file created in pp2003 into pp2007. Placeholders
hold the formatting but general text boxes do not.

Echo, did you find a fix for this?
Anyone else have a fix?

jem1212
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Previous message from bh529:
Subject: Reuse slides changes text to underline format
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A PowerPoint 2007 file:
Any textbox that is not a standard placeholder in the incoming slide changes
to underline format. The rest of the formatting (font, color, size) holds,
but everything gets underlined.

I have checked the "keep source formatting" box before inserting, I have
copied and pasted the entire slide and also just content into a blank slide
(and also selected "keep source formatting"), but no matter what, I cannot
get the text to come in not underlined.

It is only one file that is doing this...but behaves this way no matter what
the source file for the imported slide is. I have tried to update the default
text box to be sure it is not underlined...but that seems to have no effect.

Any ideas?

 

[Echo S]

I'm sorry, I don't have a fix.

The only reliable way I know to get it to work is to do the copy/paste or
insert in PPT 2003.

If you'd like to email me a couple of sample slides that exhibit this
behavior, I'd love to be able to include them in a bug report. email to
echos at indy dot net and include the text of these posts so I remember why
I requested them!

Out of curiousity, is there anything special about the text boxes? (I
understand they're not placeholders.) For example, mine had mixed
formatting -- they're references. So they'd have a person's name (no
italics), a journal name (italics), and years and page numbers and stuff (no
italilcs). I used RnR Shape Styles to format them as Arial 12 pt bold in the
lower corner of the screen. I don't know that that has anything at all to do
with it, but you never know!

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

I have no idea if this will work, but it may be worth a try: create a text
box that is formatted as you want in the destination file -> right click ->
set as default -> then try re-use slide.

Just a thought.

Lucy

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