text not in text boxes

[ladeewzl]

I installed MS Office Standard 2007. I can create new presentations in
PowerPoint fine. When I open old presentations (existing on my computer from
Office 2000), the text appears above the text box. When I place my cursor in
the text box to type, the cursor appears in the text box, but when I type,
the words/letters appear above the text box. It is the same for tables -
where ever there is text, it appears to be floating above the corresponding
text box/cell.

Can anyone help?

 

[John Wilson]

This may sound unlikely but do you have a local printer driver installed. See
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm
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[Steve Rindsberg]

I installed MS Office Standard 2007. I can create new presentations in
PowerPoint fine. When I open old presentations (existing on my computer from
Office 2000), the text appears above the text box. When I place my cursor in
the text box to type, the cursor appears in the text box, but when I type,
the words/letters appear above the text box. It is the same for tables -
where ever there is text, it appears to be floating above the corresponding
text box/cell.

See if this helps:

PowerPoint 2007 text editing slow, text cut off, text display or formatting
problems, print, crash problems
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm

 

[ladeewzl]

Steve,

Your pacifier printer driver worked like a charm. However, since we have a
network printer, I can't print unless I have the network printer set as
default. As long as I don't close my presentation, I can change my printer
and print. If I leave my network printer as default, then the presentation
opens whacko. Is there a way to set my network printer as my default printer
and satisfy PPT at the same time?

Thanks for your help

 

[Brian Reilly, MVP]

As Steve and John point out, the PPT uses the settings from the
default printer driver to help determine how many things look. It
sounds crazy but there a underlying core code reasons in PPT for this
and I'd bet lunch that this is unlikely to change for quite some time
and even quite some more time.

What I suggest is something like this. When you open PPT to work on a
file, you switch the default printer away from the network printer and
then if you need to print something just choose the network printer to
print to since there is no other printer actually connected to the
machine. PPT just thinks there is one there.

Else, get the Network Admin to go buy your PPPT workgroup a second
printer.

Brian Reilly, MVP

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve,

Your pacifier printer driver worked like a charm. However, since we have a
network printer, I can't print unless I have the network printer set as
default. As long as I don't close my presentation, I can change my printer
and print. If I leave my network printer as default, then the presentation
opens whacko. Is there a way to set my network printer as my default printer
and satisfy PPT at the same time?

I think so.

There are two ways of printing to network printers. It sounds as though you're
using a driver that resides on the network. This is convenient in many ways, but
as you've seen, doesn't always make programs happy, especially notoriously cranky
ones like PPT <g>.

But you can install a new driver for the printer, tell Windows it's a *local*
printer, let it install to LPT1 temporarily, then later go into the printer control
panel and add a new port ( \\ServerName\PrinterName ) and attach the printer to
that instead.

That keeps PPT happy, even if the network is down or you're on a laptop and not
even ON the network.

Step-by-step for most of this is here:

How to install a local printer driver
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00605.htm