Jumbled Hyphenation

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Sue Walsh

I have several hyphenated phrases in my presentation.
When I view the slide show, the spacing in the words that
have hyphens is distorted. The hyphen appears over top of
one of the words, and a larger than usual space is where
the hyphen ought to be.

Can anyone help?
 
Sue, I empathize with you as I have encountered this several times (all
frustrating experiences). PPT has a limited font kerning (the space between
letters) and some font and letter/symbol combinations just do not work. In
most all cases for me it is a symbol (such as the long dash) that are the
culprit. MS blames the font designer and the font designer blames MS. And
it's hard to say which is to blame as I find the font will usually work in
other applications...

Solutions I use are to use a different font for just the symbol or deleting
the symbol and spacing the text to leave room for a second text box to be
placed over it (or perhaps someone else has a better solution that we both
will learn from!).

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Hello Sue,

This sounds like it might be an issue that we have heard about but been
unable to reproduce internally at Microsoft. If you want to send me a 1
slide presentation which exhibits this problem along with details about
your version of Office, Windows and system configuration (display adapter,
driver and settings are probably the most relevant) I would be glad to have
our testing department look at it for you.

Send to john_a_langhans AT hotmail DOT com

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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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