Slide text becomes garbled after making a few edits

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Eric Bracken

I'm running Powerpoint 2002 SP-2 on a Windows XP Pro SP-1
machine. After a few minues of making edits to a text
bullet, I suddenly discover that the text on the screen
appears garbled. It looks like all of the letters on the
line have been moved to the beginning of the line and
printed on top of one another.

The actual PPT file is OK, however, so saving and
restarting PowerPoint fixes the problem--for a few
minutes, until the display becomes garbled once more.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Even better, do you
know how to fix it?

Thanks!
 
I'm running Powerpoint 2002 SP-2 on a Windows XP Pro SP-1
machine. After a few minues of making edits to a text
bullet, I suddenly discover that the text on the screen
appears garbled. It looks like all of the letters on the
line have been moved to the beginning of the line and
printed on top of one another.
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This kind of thing can be the result of font problems.

First, choose Format, Replace Fonts. Look at the list of fonts in the upper
list box. Make sure there are no "?" icons next to any of the fonts.
Those are fonts that are missing (needed by the presentation, not present on
the computer).

Make sure you don't have both TrueType and Type 1 (PostScript) versions of
the same font installed. You should be able to check this by looking at the
lower list box in Replace Fonts, where all of the fonts on your system are
listed.

Next, determine what font you've used for the text then open CharacterMap
(Start, Programs, Accessories, Rummage, Around, Until, You, Find, Where,
Bill, Hid, It) Choose the font in CharMap and verify that it can display
all of the characters in the font w/o problems.

Make sure you have at least one *local* printer driver installed and set as
default.
 
Steve,

Thanks for the lightning response to my question.
You're right--there were little "?" marks there, and
apparently the font being used (55-Helvetica) wasn't even
officially present on the machine (not listed under
character map utility.) Switched to standard Helvetica
font and things seem to be working better now.

Thanks!

--Eric
 
Thanks for the lightning response to my question.

Timing is everything and yours was superb, sir. ;-)
You're right--there were little "?" marks there, and
apparently the font being used (55-Helvetica) wasn't even
officially present on the machine (not listed under
character map utility.) Switched to standard Helvetica
font and things seem to be working better now.
Click to expand...

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know.
 
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