text closing up in charts

[Martin Conradi]

On some of our computers, when we create or edit any chart we find that the
text and numbers close up tightly together and look unsightly. They stay
this way in shows and on printouts.

We can solve this simply by opening them on another computer that doesn't
exhibit this tendency - when the spacing jumps back to normal.

As far as I am aware, all the computers use the same version of PPT 2003
SP2. Any thoughts?

(I've been away from the the newsgroup for a while so if this has recently
been covered, many apologies).

Martin Conradi

 

[Austin Myers]

Any chance you are using a font that is not installed on other PCs?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Martin Conradi]

Hi Austin,

No - this happens in Arial as well as other fonts

Martin

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Martin,
What printer does that computer have as its default? Try a different one and
see what happens. (You don't have to actually install the printer, just the
drivers.)

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[Echo S]

Hi, Martin! Good to see you again.

Check this -- I'm thinking it's the wide screen thing.
http://www.echosvoice.com/charts.htm

 

[Martin Conradi]

Thanks guys - it seems that it was an updated video driver that cured the
problem; tried the printer driver but that didn't change things.

Good to see that the group is as good as ever!

Martin

Hi, Martin! Good to see you again.

Check this -- I'm thinking it's the wide screen thing.
http://www.echosvoice.com/charts.htm

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On some of our computers, when we create or edit any chart we find that
the text and numbers close up tightly together and look unsightly. They
stay this way in shows and on printouts.

We can solve this simply by opening them on another computer that doesn't
exhibit this tendency - when the spacing jumps back to normal.

As far as I am aware, all the computers use the same version of PPT 2003
SP2. Any thoughts?

(I've been away from the the newsgroup for a while so if this has
recently been covered, many apologies).

Martin Conradi

 

[Echo S]

Yay, glad to hear it!