No fonts in drop down menu

[Guest]

No fonts show up in the drop down menu in powerpoint 2000. How can this be
resolve?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

ddwjr,

Chances are you either have a font folder problem on windows

or toooo many fonts installed..

have a look in 'fonts' on your control panel.

- How many fonts do you have?
- Do they display OK there?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Steve Rindsberg]

No fonts show up in the drop down menu in powerpoint 2000. How can this be
resolve?

Is this something that just started happening ... were you able to see fonts
before and can't now, or have you just installed PPT2000 and have never seen
fonts appear?

In any case, I'd start by quitting ppt, shutting down Windows and turning off
the PC for five minutes or so. Then see if the problem reappears when you
start back up.

If so, check to see that you have a printer driver installed and set as default
printer.

 

[Guest]

Here is the most complete information I have to give for now. this also
answers the questions to TAJ Simmons reply.

This has actually happened on at least three Gateway M275XL Tablet Computer
1.8GHz with Windows XP Tablet PC edition 2005 SP2, Microsoft Office 2000
professional suite, and Microsoft Office OneNote2003 installed on them. You
can see all the fonts from the drop down menu while in Word, OneNote, Access
and/or Excel , just not in Powerpoint 2000. Printer and drivers are
installed. I have tried shutting down and restarting. I have tried to repair
office 2000 on one of the Tablets. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Office
2000 none of this has helped. I do not know the answer to whether they were
there before and are not now it was something I never thought to check before
it was noticed now.


Thank you both for your time and responses, anymore ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

ddwjr

 

[TAJ Simmons]

So how many fonts (approx) are installed?

Cheers
TAJ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Printer and drivers are

installed.

Just to verify: it must be a LOCAL driver (ie, the driver must be installed on your
pc, not on a network server) and set as the default printer.

 

[Guest]

79 fonts , but with variations (bold, Italic, etc) the total is 122.

 

[Guest]

The print drivers are all local. The default printer is actually IP
addressed, networked and goes through no print server at all.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

That's not many fonts at all - so we can rule that one out.

TAJ

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Are all the service packs for office 2000 installed ?

TAJ

 

[Guest]

Are all the service packs for office 2000 installed ?

TAJ

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that all the Windows XP OS and Office 2000
updates have been applied up to yesterday. Running Windows XP SP2 and Office
2000 SP3.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The print drivers are all local. The default printer is actually IP
addressed, networked and goes through no print server at all.

To verify this, would you print a test page (Start, Settings, Printers, rightclick the
printer icon, choose Properties and click Print Test Page.

On the test page, look at the "Computer name"

See if it matches your computer's name or something else.

 

[Guest]

Yes, it does match the machine.

To verify this, would you print a test page (Start, Settings, Printers, rightclick the
printer icon, choose Properties and click Print Test Page.

On the test page, look at the "Computer name"

See if it matches your computer's name or something else.



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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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[Steve Rindsberg]

OK, thanks.

What happens if you toggle the "List font names in their font" setting in Tools,
Customize, Options tab, "Other" section?

If it's checked, uncheck it, click Close and restart PPT. If it's unchecked, check
it and do the same.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I gave it a shot but selected or unselected and restarting it still
comes up with no fonts in the drop down menu. Any other ideas that might
help?

Thanks again for the suggestions,

ddwjr

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, I gave it a shot but selected or unselected and restarting it still
comes up with no fonts in the drop down menu. Any other ideas that might
help?

Sometimes third party addins can cause problems like this. Do you have any addins
installed in PPT?

Or, in fact, in any of the Office apps? One user reported problems in PPT that happened
only when Outlook was open. That further turned out to be due to the fact that outlook
was set to use Word as its email editor and there was an addin installed in *Word* that
caused PPT problems.