fonts in PPT 2007

[Danny K]

I'm using PPT 2007. I've created a number of individual presentations
(slides of lyrics to songs). I have the font in those presentations
formatted the way I want them (font, size, color, outline, etc.)

When I copy (ctrl-c) the slides from one of those presentations and paste
(ctrl-v) them into another presentation, the text sometimes does not retain
the formatting from the original presentation -- most commonly the text
reverts to black even though I had it formatted as white, sometimes the font
size changes to 18 pt even though I had the original text formatted as 44 pt.


So after I've pasted the slides from the original presentations into the new
presentation, I have to reformat the text in the new presentation to the way
it was in the original presentations -- I'm doing the work twice.

Is there a way to retain the formatting of text when I copy slides from one
presentation to another?

Thank you.

 

[GreyGoose]

Did you try, Office button, Save, Embed fonts in file?
Try this, then do a Save As to fold in the new changes.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Danny

Do you see a little clipboard button when you paste the slide in? If so,
click it and select 'keep source formatting'. Alternatively, use home tab ->
new slide drop down -> re-use slide -> browse -> browse to your file -> tick
'keep source formatting' check box at the bottom of the taskpane and select
the slides you want to insert (if you right click a slide thumbnail you can
insert all).

Hope that helps,
Lucy

 

[Danny K]

Double Gs, thanks for the effort, but that was the one thing I thought of
prior to my post here, and it didn't work for me. It did retain the font,
Calibri, (but even a simple copy and paste did that) but not all of the
formatting (size, color) of the text.

Again, a sincere thank you for the suggestion.

djk

 

[Danny K]

LT, the first suggestion worked like a charm! Thank you.

Though, oddly, the second suggestion gave the same results as a simple copy
and paste. Yes, I'm sure I had the 'keep source formatting' box checked.
I'll probably be using the first suggestion anyway -- it seemed faster and
fewer steps, but, I wanted to try the second way just from curiosity -- it's
good to have options, but at leas I know how to acheive the desired results
and save some time!

Thank you again for sharing your expertise here!

djk

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Danny

You're more than welcome

I have heard reports of 'keep source formatting' not always working with the
reuse slide option which is a bummer as it's my favourite method. But
there's more than one way to skin a cat and as long as one of them works....

Lucy