printing/format problems

[Guest]

I have one slide that everytime I try to print,, the slide prints in font
several times larger that what is displayed on the screen. I retype,
reformat, all kinds of things but nothing seems to work. Someone suggeted
Tools/opitons/Print/Print inserted objects at printer resolution but that did
not help either. It's very weird. Not sure what caused it. Any help is
apprecited

 

[Russ Talbot]

The font may not be a true-type Font. Try changing the font to Arial or
Times. Or you may have a font conflict in your fonts folder.

Russ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have one slide that everytime I try to print,, the slide prints in font
several times larger that what is displayed on the screen. I retype,
reformat, all kinds of things but nothing seems to work. Someone suggeted
Tools/opitons/Print/Print inserted objects at printer resolution but that did
not help either. It's very weird. Not sure what caused it. Any help is
apprecited

Sometimes slides get corrupted and you end up with weird font problems.

Select the text, copy and paste it to Notepad (which'll remove any rogue
formatting and save you having to retype)

Add a new slide, create new text boxes and paste your text back, delete the
original slide and see if that helps.

I'd keep a backup copy of your presentation to revert to if this turns out not
to work.

 

[Guest]

Steve - why is it that hypens and some special characters cause the spacing
to go awry when prining?

Hyphens can cause the letters that follow to space very unevenly. I have
also seen on screen, so it's not necessarily a printer problem. However, the
problem is very intermittent.

Other characters do similar things. In particular, to create a "greater than
or equal to" character, we have to underline a >. Similarly to create a +/-
character (with the plus above the minus) we have to underline a plus.

Alan

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve - why is it that hypens and some special characters cause the spacing
to go awry when prining?

I don't know but let's see if we can pin this down with more detail. What special
characters -- just the ones you mention below? In what font? What version of PPT?