Every national-specific character is changed to Arial (only in powerpoint)

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Tomáš Kafka

Hello everyone, I have english windows vista and english powerpoint 2003,
and I am making a presentation in czech language (with special characters
such as ěšÄřžýáíé).

My problem is that powerpoint changes every occurrence of those characters
to arial (I have set all texts to Calibri on master slide), even though in
word 2003 on same machine, I can use czech characters in calibri font with
no problems. This happens with every other font as well (even built-in fonts
like Verdana or Trebuchet) and only in Powerpoint.

Do you know how to force powerpoint to use original font in
national-specific characters? I am programmer, so you can speak techy :).
Thanks a lot, Tomas
 
Dear Tomas,

If you're using PPT 2003, have you tried doing a Format > Replace Fonts and
then replacing all instances of Arial with the font of your choice?

Try that, and let us know how it worked.

Jeff Chapman
 
Hi Tomáš,

Tomáš Kafka said:
Hello everyone, I have english windows vista and english powerpoint 2003,
and I am making a presentation in czech language (with special characters
such as ěšÄřžýáíé).
My problem is that powerpoint changes every occurrence of those characters
to arial (I have set all texts to Calibri on master slide), ....
Click to expand...

I don't see the problem on my computer. When are the characters changed?
During saving, printing, closing, typing, ...?



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Mit vielen Grüßen
Pia Bork

MVP Powerpoint
http://www.ppt-faq.de
http://www.office-training-muenchen.de
 
Hello Jeff, thanks for an advice, but when I do this - eg. change Arial to
Calibri, czech letters still remain in Arial.
I can do this even when I open PP, create a blank presentation and just
format a first block with Calibri (or any other font not arial).
 
Hi Pia, guess some specific software must be installed to produce this
error...
The letters are being changed instantly during typing. I have encountered
several users with same problem on czech forums, but noone had solution.

PS: I tried installing Powerpoint 2007, and it works OK, it even 'fixes'
presentation, so that I can open buggy presentation in ppt 2007, save it in
compatibility mode, open in 2003 and czech characters magically work (and
arial changes to preferred font automatically).
 
I thought that maybe my powerpoint template is somehow damaged, but I
couldn't find it - in /Users/myname/Appdata (where word's normal.dot is) was
no *.pot file, and in Program Files/Microsoft Office there were just some
fancy looking templates, no template of a blank presentation.
 
I thought that maybe my powerpoint template is somehow damaged, but I
couldn't find it - in /Users/myname/Appdata (where word's normal.dot is)
was no *.pot file, and in Program Files/Microsoft Office there were just
some fancy looking templates, no template of a blank presentation.
Click to expand...

The "blank.pot" doesn't exist until you make one. Maybe it solves your
problem to create a blank.pot with your fonts in the master.


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Mit vielen Grüßen
Pia Bork

MVP Powerpoint
http://www.ppt-faq.de
http://www.office-training-muenchen.de
 
Thank you, Pia, I didn't know this.
I thought I could solve the problem by creating a new file in ppt2003,
opening it and resaving with ppt2007 (which fixes the problem with
presentation), and then opening again in ppt2003 and saving as blank.pot.
However, even if the newly created template is applied (i checked that by
inserting a shape into template, it then really exists in newly created
presentation), the problem is still the same - I have no idea why :(.
Thanks, Tomas
 
Thank you very much for your time, Pia!
I have noticed that when I create new presentation now (with blank.pot run
through ppt2007), I can type czech characters (they will be in Arial), but
after that, I can format them to other font and they will all change to
other font (so then it works as it should), and on newly created slides,
everything works from the beginning.
I guess that is much better than at the begining, I'll post this solution to
discussion.

PS1 - it happens with both czech and english keyboard
PS2 - I have just virtual PDF printer, and it is set as default, so that
should be OK.

Thanks again, Pia, and have a nice day! Tomas


From: Pia Bork
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 8:01 AM
To: (e-mail address removed)
Subject: Re: Every national-specific character is changed to Arial (only in
powerpoint)


Hi Tomáš
I'm running out of ideas, too.


Just out of the blue:
- Which language does your keyboard have - while typing into the
presentation and while making a new template? Is it always the same or do
you switch between English and Czech? Is the error still there when you
create a template with a Czech-keyboard?

- Do you have a local printer installed? Is it your default printer or can
you make it a default printer?

Greetings, Pia
 
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