Setting the Font when pasting text

[Ruth]

I've set the default font for my ppt presentation to Arial. I've also set the
default text box to Arial. The only thing that I can't seem to change is the
font when I copy and paste. When I paste, the font is changed to Times Roman.

This has occurred on another presentation where all the defaults were set to
Calibri but when I copy and paste, the font comes in as Arial.

What am I missing? I'm working in PowerpOint 2007.

Thanks!

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Try using Paste Special > Unformatted text. What happens then?

Also, where are you setting the "default" font? In the master?

Sandy

 

[Ruth]

Pasting "unformatted text" still comes through as Times Roman.

I'm setting the default font on the Master. The theme font is set as Arial
and all text and placeholder text on the Master slides are in Arial.

I also created a textbox and formatted with Arial font and then right click
to set the default on any new textboxes I create.

 

[Luca Brasi]

I observed this behavior as well. I suppose that mainly
presentations/templates that were created with PP versions prior to 2007 are
affected. For true 2007 files it looks that the "body" font ist used (please
someone correct me if i'm wrong).

However, the only solution for me was to open the presentation file as zip
(add a ".zip" extension to your file name and double-click it), then browse
for the Presentation.xml file, open it up in a text editor (e.g.
notepad.exe), search and replace any occurences of "Times New Roman" with
"Arial". Save the changes and rename your presentation file back to its
original name.

Better be careful by making changes right in the xml code. Save a backup
copy of your presentation file first!

Luca