PPT does what it wants, not what I want

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Gabriel Nivasch

Every empty slide comes with two empty textboxes. These textboxes have
some strange properties that other textboxes don't have: When the text
in the box is too long vertically, the font size gets automatically
reduced.

To indicate that the text size got reduced, PPT displays an icon on
the left with two arrows squeezing two parallel lines. If you resize
the textbox and make it taller, the text size becomes large again.

My problem is the following: I entered some text on the textbox and
set its size to 28. Each time I close PPT and open it again, when I
select the textbox, the icon on the left appears. When I enlarge the
textbox vertically, the text size jumps to 32!

If I set the size again to 24, PPT "learns" that I want that size to
be 24 and stops bothering me with the little icon -- but only until
the next time I launch PPT!

Any suggestions? Should I delete these "enchanted" textboxes from now
on, and use regular ones on every slide?

Gabriel
 
"Tools", "Autocorrect Options", click the "Autoformat as you type" TAB and
uncheck the two "Autofit..." options. Now it won't resize automatically on
you anymore!
 
"Tools", "Autocorrect Options", click the "Autoformat as you type" TAB
anduncheck the two "Autofit..." options. Now it won't resize
automatically on you anymore!
Click to expand...

I don't know. I can't reproduce the bug reliably anymore. But I
remember that I tried yesterday something similar to what you suggest:
I selected "Stop fitting text to this placeholder" in the pop-up menu
of the little icon. But when I re-launched PPT, it forgot about *that*
option and gave me the little icon again!

In any case, I already switched all the "enchanted" textboxes in my
presentation to regular ones.

But the behavior I described must be a bug: It's not reasonable that
after you changed some text to size 28, PPT insists on switching it to
32. (It might have to do with the fact that I use several slide
masters in my presentation, something which might not be so common.
The problem happened only with some of the slide masters that I
created.)

Gabriel
 
See Echo's reply to Tom Whitmore's post this morning. The problem/bug *is*
related to multiple masters and Echo recommends that you create a new Slide
Master for the slides you want to change, rather than editing the slides
directly. Anyway, read her entire reply to Tom.
 
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