Font problem in PPT 2004

[Hank]

Does anyone know how to fix the unicode/font problem in
Office 2004 for Mac (PowerPoint specifically)? Documents
that have been previously saved with characters in Symbol
font (but other fonts may also be affected) do not
display correctly. When one highlights the offending
character it shows that it is already in Symbol font, but
one has to select the font again to get it to display
properly. One must do this for every character that
should be in Symbol font. It is very tedious and
impractical in a large document with many symbols. All
documents with symbols saved in PPT X have been
affected. I found discussions in Google Groups about
this problem, but apparently no official fix from either
Apple or Microsoft. Please help.

 

[SteveM]

I am having the same problem but even worse, as I cannot get the Symbol
font to display Greek letters properly even by re-applying the font. HELP!

 

[Mickey Stevens]

I believe this is an Apple issue. I don't know whether the latest OS
updates fix this or not. If you haven't yet applied them, do so, but as I
said, I'm not certain that will rectify the problem.

 

[Martin Forrester]

Good news! This problem (which I also have suffered with and reported here)
appears to be solved in the Office 2004 SP 1 released today!

Cheers,
Martin

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Martin,

Thanks for reporting back with this news about the service pack. I've posted it as a new post to alert people about it.

Cheers
TAJ