Samll Fonts Not Installed

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In 2002 and 2003 Powerpoint presentations I get a Small Fonts not installed
error message when I try to save it. I have tried the save as a webpage,
find the font and change it, but it is still there. I have also tried to
"drag and drop it" into my fonts folder, but it errors out each time. (the
file is either invalid or damaged) THis has happened to several of our
presentations. Graphics have been "living with it" for almost 2 years befor
I found out about it. These presentations do have graphs and some other exel
information in them. Anyone have any ideas?
 
In 2002 and 2003 Powerpoint presentations I get a Small Fonts not installed
error message when I try to save it. I have tried the save as a webpage,
find the font and change it, but it is still there. I have also tried to
"drag and drop it" into my fonts folder, but it errors out each time. (the
file is either invalid or damaged) THis has happened to several of our
presentations. Graphics have been "living with it" for almost 2 years befor
I found out about it. These presentations do have graphs and some other exel
information in them. Anyone have any ideas?
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Can you reduce this to a less-than-5-slide presentation that displays the
problem and isn't too horribly big (under a meg or two)?

If so I'd be happy to have a look. Quote this message in the body of the email,
attach the file and send to steve at-sign pptools dot com
 
Thanks Steve! I will do that today.

Steve Rindsberg said:
Can you reduce this to a less-than-5-slide presentation that displays the
problem and isn't too horribly big (under a meg or two)?

If so I'd be happy to have a look. Quote this message in the body of the email,
attach the file and send to steve at-sign pptools dot com


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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PPTools: www.pptools.com
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OK, I've found the source of the problem ... it appears to be a bug in PPT, or in
Excel, or Object Embedding or Windows or some fool thing. Anyhow, here's the deal:

Things go wonko when you use very small fonts in Excel objects that are copy/pasted
into PPT.

If you doubleclick to activate the chart in the problem slide and choose the data
series labels above the columms, they're set to 5.5pt Arial and for some reason, PPT
thinks they become "Small Fonts", so it complains when Small Fonts isn't installed.

One workaround is to ungroup the chart. The fonts all become Arial then.

Or change the font size in Excel ... 8pt seems to be the magic boundary.

Or change the default in your presentation's save dialog so that it's not trying to
embed the fonts, if you're not using anything but Arial elsewhere.

And are you aware that the whole Excel sheet, all however many many megabytes of it,
is embedded in PPT, and that anybody who wants to can grab it? That may or may not
matter to you. But ungrouping or using one of several other solutions could shrink
that PPT down right nicely, ma'am.
 
Thanks! They hav been fighting this for two years and just brought it to my
attention. They will bless the ground you walk on! :)
 
Thanks! They hav been fighting this for two years and just brought it to my
attention. They will bless the ground you walk on! :)
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Let us how it works out and tell them to toss a few blessings Connecticut way.
My friend and co-conspirator Brian Reilly helped work this out.

We make quite a team. He throws out suggestions and I ignore them since he's always
wrong. With the useless ideas eliminated, I can concentrate on the good ones that I come
up with.

Hi Brian ... and happy birthday again to your twin brother.
When did you say YOUR birthday was?
 
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