non-"sticking" fonts

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Tom Whitmore

I am an experienced user of PP (I use XP in Windows 2000) but I had a
problem this morning that I do not understand.

I have a title and bullet list slide. I'd like to alter the font size in
the bullet list (increase). So I clicked on the font increase button (a
big A) after I selected the whole text of the bullet list section. It
increased OK so I saved the file. When I re-opened the file the slide has
reverted to the old smaller text size.

Next I tried to increase font size (after selecting all the text) by using
the slide size dialog (not the button) -- same results, no change after I
saved and re-opened.

Next, I unchecked the auto-correct/apply as you type autofit boxes and
re-saved. Same result.

Finally I increased the font size default in my slide master -- but that
increased sizes in other slides beyond what I want.

How can I regain some control over this beast?

dr Tom
 
I ran into this -- or at least something like it -- a couple of weeks ago,
Tom.

If it's the same issue, it's a bug in PPT's multiple masters. Apparently PPT
gets mixed up and reverts back to the slide master sometimes when you
override text size settings on a slide based on a master that's not the
first set of masters. (Did that even make sense?!)

MS suggested that changing the order of the masters can sometimes fix this,
however, you run the risk of other slides being affected by the same bug
(after all, not every master can be the first master in the list).

I thought that typing the font size into the font size box on the toolbar
fixed it in my file, however, one of the other MVPs said that it didn't work
for him on all the slides. I meant to retest that, but I've been swamped at
work, so I haven't yet had time.

So I guess my question for you is, does your file have multiple masters? If
so, then I'd create a separate master for the problem slide that has the
exact text size you need for this slide. That's the only thing I can think
of that will work around this bug.

If you don't have multiple masters, well, then, this probably isn't the
problem. <g>
 
Hi Tom,

I've run into a similar problem. My workaround is not to use the
textbox that comes by default on every slide.

Here's an easy way to fix a troublesome textbox:

* Duplicate the textbox by grabbing it with the mouse, holding down
"Ctrl" (the arrow onscreen will get a "+"), dragging the textbox to
its original place, and releasing the mouse.

* Now you have 2 copies of the textbox, one right above the other.

* To select the original textbox (the "bad" one), unselect everything,
and then hit Tab twice (the first Tab will select the title, and the
second Tab will select the bad textbox).

* Hit Delete twice (after the first Delete, the deleted textbox will
be replaced by an empty textbox with the words "Click to add text";
after the second Delete, even that will be gone).

Hope this works.

Gabriel
 
Hi,

Thanks for the help -- but you'll note I have tried this already -- it
DOES NOT WORK in my case -- see comments above.

Tom
 
thanks -- but your suggestion seems hardly workable for me since I would
have to make a diffrerent master on half the slides in a prsentation since
I frequently want different font sizes (I want to sue a large a font as
possible but the amount of text dictates smaller fonts on some and allows
larger fonts on others)!

Tom
 
Yes, I agree that it's not always a viable workaround. But sometimes it is.
Just depends on the presentation in question.

I like Gabriel's suggestion to take the text out of the placeholder and put
it into a regular textbox (copy/paste of the original placeholder will do
the same thing).
 
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