What will prevent or fix this? Back-grading to Jaguar!
Sorry: Tiger has some font problems, and it sounds like you have found
another one. It could be one of two things: The Tiger Font Problem, or an
incompatible font.
When you "COPY" to the clipboard, you render the PowerPoint internally as
PICT using QuickDraw. QuickDraw has some issues with Unicode. You could
try saving the PowerPoint out as PICT then using Insert>Picture within Word
to bring the picture in. If PICT displays the same issue, you would need to
use TIFF or PNG (Not JPEG...) format.
The Tiger Font Issues are not really fixable at this point.
You might "try" deleting your Font Caches (both the Apple and Microsoft
ones) then a power-off restart of your computer. Turning the power off
triggers OS X to perform its system clean-up when it boots.
That sometimes fixes the issue for a while.
Hopefully there's a patch on the way from Apple or Microsoft in the
not-too-distant future...
Cheers
I copy from PowerPoint and Paste Special>As Picture into a text box in
Word and usually this works fine, but some times the pasted text is
showing as solid black bars.
Why does this happen at times (and not at other times)? What will
prevent this or fix it?
(Using Office 2004 updated with OS 10.4.2)
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