Slide changes with cut and paste

[Mike Langford]

I've been fighting this but maybe I am missing something important.

This is a bit difficult to explain so bear with me.
I generate PPT for training presentations and paste the graphics into a
student book with supporting text. I paste slides as PNG or WMF
depending on the target app (either MS Word or FrameMaker). I don't use
OLE to eliminate potential versioning problems and to keep file sizes
small.

Never had a problem until PPT2002/2003 with the autoformat--it was
always wysiwyg.

Now PPT occasionally decides that my text doesn't fit the frame the way
it would like and puts the little autocorrect flag in the lower left
corner (the double line with arrows). SOMETIMES when I copy this slide
and paste it into my document the text gets resized to the default font
and I no longer have wysiwyg. I have to make the little autocorrect flag
go away to fix it.

I emphasize sometimes because it doesn't always happen. In fact, I am
posting this because I just spent 15 min reformating a slide. Then I
decided that for this post I might need an example and for the life of
me I can't reproduce the problem (don't you know ;-)

Since I work mostly in Framemaker I assumed it was an Adobe problem but
recently have been using MS Word and it's doing it there too.

Has anybody else seen this problem?
Is it something I have incorrectly set?
Is it a bug I'll have to live with?

I'll try to capture the slide and file the next time it happens so I
have a sample. Probably won't take long I seem to get 5 a day

Thanks for any help I can get.

Pete

 

[Beverley]

Hi Mike,

That sounds like the problem described on
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

Scroll down to the part where it says "Turn off Automatic Layout if you have
PowerPoint XP or higher
Automatic layout can cause your text boxes, pictures and other content to
change size unpredictably and can lead to other oddball side effects. " and
see if that is what is happening to you

Beverley

 

[Pete]

Did all that stuff when I first got ppt2002 and double checked when
upgraded (against my will) to ppt2003.
Regretfully any user control over the autoformat feature doesn't seem to
allow you to disable it completely.

Other suggestions are welcome and encouraged--this is driving me nuts.

Mike (aka PETE) for when I forget to suppress my real address