Cyrillic encoding in Powerpoint 97

[Guest]

A Russian Powerpoint document was received by a Windows
98
and Office 97 user who has multilanguage support
installed
and can normally create and view Russian Powerpoint
documents.

This particular document opens with virtually all
characters replaced by question marks, although a couple
of paragraphs display correctly. This occurs with
Powerpoint 97 on every Windows 98 and NT machine I tried
it on.

If the ??? text is copied and pasted into Word, it
displays in Word correctly, and when pasted back remains
correct. Strangely, if bullets or quotation marks are
included in the copied text, then the text remains as
question marks in Word.

In the file open dialogue of PowerPoint, the preview
shows
Cyrillic text. The document can be viewed in Powerpoint
2000+, but even if resaved from here, Powerpoint 97 has
only question marks.

If I type or paste Russian characters into a question
mark
paragraph, that text also becomes question marks.
Question
mark text pasted straight into Powerpoint (not via Word)
always remains as question marks.

The encoding here is screwed, but can I fix this
document?
Copying to Word and back a paragraph at a time would be
OK
if it were a small document, but it is not.

 

[Guest]

I'm afraid that I'm no help, but you could help me by
posting the ultimate answer here.
I'm considering having some presentations translated into Russian,
and frankly I'd expect some problems like this.
I'll just mention that there are at least 2 different encodings for
Cyrillic character sets, but it seems that you don't have this problem
if the text finally does come out in readable Russian.
Please post whatever you find out about PPT in Russian.
Zhelau Vam uspek.