powerpoint problem with diagrams

[Guest]

We have a PP 2002 presentation with fairly complicated diagrams including
text boxes connected with arrows with labels on them (rotated text boxes).
All text is using a standard font. The diagrams look beautiful on the
computer that created them. But when we view them from other computers (some
running PP 2003), the text runs over the text box boundaries and the arrow
labels aren't properly aligned. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause
this? I couldn't find anything in Microsoft's knowledge base. Will
upgrading the computer that created these to PP 2003 fix the problem? Thanks
in advance for your thoughts...

 

[Ute Simon]

We have a PP 2002 presentation with fairly complicated diagrams including
text boxes connected with arrows with labels on them (rotated text boxes).
All text is using a standard font. The diagrams look beautiful on the
computer that created them. But when we view them from other computers
(some
running PP 2003), the text runs over the text box boundaries and the arrow
labels aren't properly aligned. Does anyone have any ideas what could
cause
this? I couldn't find anything in Microsoft's knowledge base. Will
upgrading the computer that created these to PP 2003 fix the problem?
Thanks
in advance for your thoughts...

Hi Wendy,

do these two computers also run different operating systems? My guess is,
that you used a font in PPT 2002, which is not installed on the PPT 2003
machine (fonts are installed with the OS). So the program tries to
substitute it with a font which looks alike, but runs wider.

You could
- install the font used on the other computer, too (which I would recommend)
- embed the font into the presentation (which could cause license problems
on the machine with PPT 2003, so that you can't work on the presentation at
all)
- use one of the standard fonts (Arial, TimesNewRoman, CourierNew, Tahoma,
Verdana, ComicSansSerif) to make it run on most computers; I would recommend
this if the presentation is goint to be spread widely)

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We have a PP 2002 presentation with fairly complicated diagrams including
text boxes connected with arrows with labels on them (rotated text boxes).
All text is using a standard font. The diagrams look beautiful on the
computer that created them. But when we view them from other computers (some
running PP 2003), the text runs over the text box boundaries and the arrow
labels aren't properly aligned. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause
this? I couldn't find anything in Microsoft's knowledge base. Will
upgrading the computer that created these to PP 2003 fix the problem? Thanks
in advance for your thoughts...

Open the presentation on one of the computers where it's messed up.
Choose Format, Replace Fonts.
Look through the list of fonts in the UPPER of the two list boxes.

I'm betting that at least one of them will have a "?" icon next to it.
That means that the font's called for by the presentation but not present on the
computer, and that's most likely the source of your text problems.