powerpoint and tex boxes

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When I create a Text box in powerpoint 2000 the text starts to far to the
"left" and is cut off. Almost like it starts outside the texbox boundries.
The text is then cut off in the slideshow. All the ruler settings are OK and
the first line indent is OK. Changing font does not fix it either.

It looks like the first line indent is set to a negative number but you
can't a negative number as a first line indent.

It only happens in this one powerpoint file.

Anyone else have this problem.

Thanks
 
I thought someone else would have chimed in with an answer by now, but since
no one has, I'll take a stab at this. I'm guessing that either the
presentation has some setting messed up, and you just haven't found it yet,
or it has been corrupted. For strange, unexplained errors like this,
round-tripping the file to HTML often helps. See "HTML 'Round-tripping' to
repair corruption" from the PPT FAQ:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00526.htm

--David

David Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
When I create a Text box in powerpoint 2000 the text starts to far to the
"left" and is cut off. Almost like it starts outside the texbox boundries.
The text is then cut off in the slideshow. All the ruler settings are OK and
the first line indent is OK. Changing font does not fix it either.

It looks like the first line indent is set to a negative number but you
can't a negative number as a first line indent.

It only happens in this one powerpoint file.

Anyone else have this problem.
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I've never seen this but was able to repro something similar-seeming by setting
the text box's right margin to a high value.

Try this: click in the text box, choose Format, Text box from the menu bar, go
to the Text Box tab and set all the internal margins to 0.

Does that fix it?
 
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