Powerpoint font stuck on PMingLiU

[Dan]

I have a number of autoshapes that have text in them,
formatted with bullets (*) and sub-bullets (-). All of
the text is Arial and that's how I want it to stay.

However, at the very last character, when I hit return to
start a new line, Powerpoint gets confused and believes
that "PMingLiU" is the selected font. After I type a
letter is reverts to Arial, but this is a problem because
I want to distribute this file as a template and I can't
have anything come back incorrectly formatted.

I've now removed all foreign language fonts and manually
deleted mingliu.ttc but it still is stuck.

Can anyone help?
Thanks!
- Dan

 

[Kathy J]

Dan,
Does it help to use Format--> Replace fonts and replace the PMingLiU font
with Arial?

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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

In addition to that, do you have Asian support installed for Office. If so,
do you need it?

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a number of autoshapes that have text in them,
formatted with bullets (*) and sub-bullets (-). All of
the text is Arial and that's how I want it to stay.

However, at the very last character, when I hit return to
start a new line, Powerpoint gets confused and believes
that "PMingLiU" is the selected font. After I type a
letter is reverts to Arial, but this is a problem because
I want to distribute this file as a template and I can't
have anything come back incorrectly formatted.

Position the cursor at the last character or even the next to the last
character to make sure, then press DELETE a couple times. Retype any text you
deleted if necessary.

Save and see if that solved the problem for that text box.

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[DANIEL RAICHE]

I was able to change the font to MingLiU, however, when I try to use Replace Fonts the only options to replace the font MingLiU with are MingLiU or PMingLiU. I can't get Arial to appear in the lower dropdown box.

So unfortunately that doesn't solve it.
- Dan

 

[DANIEL RAICHE]

I've removed Asian support, which I don't need. But unfortunately that doesn't solve it.
- Dan

 

[DANIEL RAICHE]

I've tried deleting the end of the line, the ending text, and all of the text. No matter what I do, after I type a line and hit enter, the Font dropdown selector shows "MingLiU" until I type the first character, when it switches to Arial.

So unfortunately I think I'm stuck!
- Dan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I've tried deleting the end of the line, the ending text, and all of the
text. No matter what I do, after I type a line and hit enter, the Font
dropdown selector shows "MingLiU" until I type the first character, when it
switches to Arial.

If you want to email me a *SMALL* version of the presentation, perhaps just one slide
that demonstrates the problem, I'd be happy to have a look.

steve at-sign pptools dot com

If you can't get it down to a meg or two max, don't email it; it'll get rejected or
deleted, one of the two.

So unfortunately I think I'm stuck!
- Dan


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[sps197]

Don't know if this was ever resolved, but for information, I suspect that the issue was that the keyboard was set for an input language of Chinese, rather than English. I've just had a similar issue... I suspect there is some random keyboard shortcut which does this, becasue I certainly didn't do it intentionally, but the fix was to remove the offending installation.