animated text not displayed as expected by viewer

[Guest]

Help, I am newbie, actually first time to use power point 2003,
When I ran my presentation with ppt viewer on my computer, the animated text
did not display properly. Sometimes the text had characters partially
displayed, or characters were displayed on top of each other. Why? and How
can I fix this problem? It ran just fine, from the slide show in the power
point program, but I need to put the presentation on a CD because it will be
played on another computer. I am using a basic font, the text is rather long
on the lines, should I shorten them? Also there are several, 3 to 5, lines on
a slide, should I make less lines? Should I animate one line at a time? Does
ppt 2007 fix this problem with the viewer? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ute Simon]

Help, I am newbie, actually first time to use power point 2003,

When I ran my presentation with ppt viewer on my computer, the animated
text
did not display properly. Sometimes the text had characters partially
displayed, or characters were displayed on top of each other. Why? and How
can I fix this problem? It ran just fine, from the slide show in the power
point program, but I need to put the presentation on a CD because it will
be
played on another computer. I am using a basic font, the text is rather
long
on the lines, should I shorten them? Also there are several, 3 to 5, lines
on
a slide, should I make less lines? Should I animate one line at a time?
Does
ppt 2007 fix this problem with the viewer? Thanks in advance.

Hi Rachel,

though it may sound strange, because you might not want to print: Install a
local printer on your computer. And make sure, there is one installed on the
other computer. You do not need to connect the printer physically,
installing the printer driver is enough.

And please make sure that you have all updates for Office 2003. Click on
Help - Search for Updates. (This may take a while as there is the 3rd
Service Pack available meanwhile.)

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Guest]

I ran the tool that looks for custom updates on Saturday 10/6. I just updated
with the service pack on Saturday, do I need to reboot my computer for the
changes to take effect? Because I reran the ppt presentation after
downloading the service pack, and it still didn't work. And I do have a local
printer installed on my computer. Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Help, I am newbie, actually first time to use power point 2003,
When I ran my presentation with ppt viewer on my computer, the animated text
did not display properly. Sometimes the text had characters partially
displayed, or characters were displayed on top of each other. Why? and How
can I fix this problem? It ran just fine, from the slide show in the power
point program, but I need to put the presentation on a CD because it will be
played on another computer. I am using a basic font,

Which one?

 

[Guest]

Arial

Which one?


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[Guest]

more info: When I ran the microsoft update tool on Saturday only office sp2
was installed not sp3. I ran microsfot update tool again today and office
2003 sp3 does not show up for me to install.

 

[Ute Simon]

Yes, you should reboot your computer after installing the Service Pack 3.

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Arial

OK, that's plenty basic, all right. That shouldn't be an issue, then.

 

[Guest]

How do I download the service pack 3, the update tool on microsoft update
will not find the service pack 3? Is it a beta service pack 3?
Thanks.

 

[Guest]

That's why I was wondering if I made my lines shorter or only put one or two
lines one a slide if it would work better, what do you think?
My first slide text doesn't seem to have a problem with the animation, which
is a custom animation and it is only one line.
Thanks.

 

[Ute Simon]

Sorry, I've run out of ideas then. Did you test your presentation-CD on
another machine? Does it only look distorted on your computer?

Best regards,
Ute

 

[Guest]

I have only run the presentation-CD on my computer! It works great when I run
it on the slide show inside power point, But when I run it from the viewer,
it is very interesting because the results are different every time I run it.
There are different lines messed up every time. I have not run the
presentation-CD on another computer. Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That's why I was wondering if I made my lines shorter or only put one or two
lines one a slide if it would work better, what do you think?
My first slide text doesn't seem to have a problem with the animation, which
is a custom animation and it is only one line.

It's certainly worth a try (though it'd be better, of course, if we could figure
out what the problem really is)

 

[Guest]

I totally agree, It was a little disappointing, especially since it was the
very first time I ever created a power point presentation. Thanks for all
your time and effort, I guess I will have to try those changes. Thanks again.