Windows Mac Metafile Font Compatibility?

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I have a presentation prepared in PPT 2007. It contains pictures of charts
copied from Excel using

ActiveChart.CopyPicture Appearance:=xlScreen, Size:=xlScreen,
Format:=xlPicture

mPPSlide.Shapes.Paste
(or PasteSpecial ppPasteDefault)

so they are metafile pictures in Powerpoint.
The problem is, a Macintosh user sees badly spaced text in the chart labels.
My guess is that it's a font compatibility problem.

The cell font in Excel is Arial.
In the chart, the font is +Body
In the Win PPT it's a picture but when I ungroup it the text font is Calibri.

How can I set up the fonts so that they look good in both Powerpoint 2007
for Windows and for Mac?

TIA

Patrick
 
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The cell font in Excel is Arial.
In the chart, the font is +Body
In the Win PPT it's a picture but when I ungroup it the text font is
Calibri.

How can I set up the fonts so that they look good in both Powerpoint
2007 for Windows and for Mac?
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Don't use fonts like Calibri, which are not found in most computers. Change
the font in your Excel charts to Arial. (Cell font has no relevance to the
font used in a chart. You need to change the chart's properties.)
 
Calibri is the body font in the presentation, and since the chart uses the
body font, that's what you're getting. If the body font were, oh, Georgia,
when you ungroup, the fonts should change to Georgia.

Choose Arial in the chart instead of "body." Or set the body font of the
presentation to Arial.

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