PowerPoint Font Saving Issue

[DerbyDad03]

We have a PowerPoint presentation that we purchased.

Every time we save it, whether we've made changes or not, we get a
message that says "Some of your fonts cannot be saved with the
presentation". Under those words are the details:

Cannot be saved: Monotype Sorts
Reason: Not installed

If it's not saving the Font, I would think the problem would have gone
away after the first save attempt, but this message still presents
itself after hundreds of saves.

As far as I can tell, there are no presentation problems with the
document - in other words, all of the slides, both the originals and
any sildes that we've updated or added look fine both on screen and
when printed. In addition, this is the only presentation that presents
this message. Every other PowerPoint presentation we use saves with no
message.

How can I make this message go away?

Thanks!

 

[Glen (TD DTP)]

Witht he presentation open, select Format\Replace Font...

What fonts appear? Does Monotype Sorts appear?

If it does, try changing it to wingbings and check you document.

Monotype Sorts is a wingdings style font... that might work

 

[DerbyDad03]

Thank you for that suggestion..it seems to have worked - on a temp
copy of the file.

Now I have 2 follow-up questions:

1 - Is there an easy way for me to check where the Monotype Sort font
was used in the presentation? The presentation has over 50 slides in
each of 4 files, so that's 200+ slides for me to check carefully to
see if anything got screwed up before the next time we use the slides
in public. If I could highlight the font usage with VBA or something
like that then I would know if the change to Wingdings is going to be
an issue.

2 - Just a curiousity question: If the message says that the fonts are
not being saved, then why does the message keep showing up? Obviously
it's saving the fonts or they wouldn't be there to cause the probelm
the next I opened the file, right? Is it safe to assume that it's just
another ambiguous Microsoft message that doesn't really mean what it
says?

Thanks again!

 

[Glen (TD DTP)]

Answers to your questions:
1. You have a few options
- start with checking if the font is in the Master slides (this is
would be good, as it is an easy fix)
- Write a macro which checks each text string for the Monotype font,
then fill that shape with RED (or some colour which you will see)
- Use the replace font tool, and select a replacement font which is
easy to recognise - perhaps a fancy script font.

2. There are a few web pages out there about fonts in PPT (check them out).
worst case is the font is embedded in a emf image.
You can continue to save a presentation where you do not have the fonts (it
may even display the fonts your don't actually have), the error messages
depends of the font type and how the file was saved (embedded or non
embedded.... and you can not embed all fonts).

Hope that helps