My PowerPoint "reinterprets" others' PPTs with slightly diff size fonts

[corysnyder28]

Hi there,
I've been having a problem for a while, and I'm not sure what to do
about it. It seems that, on my machine, PowerPoint -- and Word -- tend
to reinterpret docs that other have created.

If a colleague sends me a resume that they created in Word, often words
spill over from one line to the next. In PowerPoint, titles entend
slightly beyond the page boundaries. In PowerPoint, if somebody sends
me a PPT in which, on a particular slide, they've drawn a box, onto
which they've overlayed a text box (so as to make the text appear to
live in that drawn box) -- the text tends to extend beyond the borders
of that drawn box.

Occasionaly titles have a simalar problem, where they extend beyond the
top border of the slide.


Can anybody suggest why I'm having this problem w/PowerPoint -- and,
indeed, perhaps across my Office apps?

I'm running Office 2003, using XP Pro SP2. I've not anything crazy w/my
fonts -- I don't think I've ever touched them on this machine. Using a
new ThinkPad T43.


Thanks for your help!

-CS

 

[Echo S]

It may not be you doing the crazy fonts things -- it may be that your
colleagues are using crazy fonts. Or at least fonts you don't have.

If you go to Format|Replace Fonts, you'll see ? beside any missing fonts.
You can ask your colleagues to try to embed the fonts, but you'll probably
want to read this first:
Embedding fonts
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00076.htm