Powerpoint 2007- Presentation/Font not displaying properly on Lapt

[Guest]

I have reviewed a ton of posts about bizarre font issues but nothing that
addresses my particular concern.

I upgraded to PPT 2007 and prepared a new presentation on my Desktop. When
transferred to my Laptop and displayed the presentation has lost most of it's
formatting and the Fonts are odd.

The laptop has been upgraded to PPT 2007 both systems are running XP Pro SP2
and I cannot figure it out.

I was trying to redo the presentation and the formatting is better but the
fonts are still weird. IE the font is oddly space especially around the
letter M. Is there a fix for this?

Thanks!

Roman

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have reviewed a ton of posts about bizarre font issues but nothing that
addresses my particular concern.

I upgraded to PPT 2007 and prepared a new presentation on my Desktop. When
transferred to my Laptop and displayed the presentation has lost most of it's
formatting and the Fonts are odd.

The laptop has been upgraded to PPT 2007 both systems are running XP Pro SP2
and I cannot figure it out.

I was trying to redo the presentation and the formatting is better but the
fonts are still weird. IE the font is oddly space especially around the
letter M. Is there a fix for this?

Check to make sure that the fonts you used in the presentation are installed on
both computers. It sounds as though one or more of the needed fonts isn't
present on your laptop.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steve,

How do I do so? I have seen posts say FORMAT => Replace....but like a dork
cannot find these on 2007! I tried saving the presentation on my Desktop and
embedding everything and the sizes, formats and Fonts were still out of
Whack... Does it make a difference that my desktop has a 22" widescreen
Monitor? I assume it would adjust to my laptop setup.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks Steve,

How do I do so? I have seen posts say FORMAT => Replace....but like a dork
cannot find these on 2007!

Dorks of the world, Unite! A LOT of stuff is hard to find nowadays.
But click the Home tab then look in the Editing group on the far right of the
ribbon. Click the little arrowheadthingie on the right of Replace and choose
Replace Fonts.

I tried saving the presentation on my Desktop and
embedding everything and the sizes, formats and Fonts were still out of
Whack... Does it make a difference that my desktop has a 22" widescreen
Monitor? I assume it would adjust to my laptop setup.

It should.

 

[Mircea]

Hi Roman,
if you have a "Generic / Text only" printer installed on your laptop,
try to delete it and install a normal one, say HP.
I did so for a similar problem and it worked for me.

 

[Guest]

Roman, et al

PowerPoint 2007 has MAJOR font issues that MS so far chooses to ignore.
Calls their technical help have been complete blow offs.

I'm not sure why, but the Times New Roman, Arial, and Garamond fonts display
shifted up at least one full line space. Some other fonts might do this as
well. Issues with Postscript fonts as well.

So... my recommendation is to try different fonts and see if the problem
goes away. Then, kick yourself in the behind (like I'm doing to myself) for
wasting your hard earned $$ on a busted program.

I wouldn't be so upset if nearly every presentation I prepared over the past
couple years didn't include at least one of those fonts and now EVERY
presentation I have is messed up!

Thanks Mr. Gates...

Bob

 

[tootsieroll_82]

Thank you VideoBob! I have been searching for your answer in tons of places.
Are they ever going to fix this issue? I really like the arial font.

 

[Echo S]

Here's the typical fix for odd display issues in PPT 2007:

PowerPoint 2007 text editing slow, text cut off, text display or formatting
problems, print, crash problems
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00850.htm

 

[VideoBob]

Roman, your screen is not the issue. I suspect, though, that you have the
2007 version of PPT running on your laptop, and an earlier version on the
other computer. Here's why that makes a differnce. For some inexplicable
reason, Microsoft made the most current version less compatible. It is
especially susceptible to printer drivers that are not absolutely the most
current.

I had exactly the problems you described and found little satisfaction (and
even less empathy) in any of the recommendations from Microsoft. What did
solve the problem was going to each printer manufacturer and downloading
their latest drivers. Even though those drivers worked perfectly under older
versions of PPT, the 2007 version was much less forgiving. I have four
printers, and now three of them work with PPT.

If you have more than one printer, then once you find a driver that works
with PPT 2007, keep that printer as your default anytime you use PPT. It's a
messed up way to solve the problem, but it's the only solution I found.

Note that this doesn't happen with all fonts, just the ones that most humans
use by default. You probably noticed that 2007 uses two different fonts as
defaults instead of Times New Roman and Arial. I suspect they couldn't get
the old standards to work properly in PPT either, and it was easier to
pretend the problem away instead of fix it.

If Microsoft designed airplanes, we'd all be dead.

VideoBob