Possible Bug in PowerPoint/Word

[Del]

We've been seeing an odd behavior in Word and Office that started
happening a while ago. It is consistent across patched Office 2004 on
10.3 and 10.4. We do not have any 10.2 machines to check against. It
consistently happens on intel and PPC macs.

What is basically happening is that our professors use PowerPoint for
their classes. Sometimes they want bulleted lists in their PPT
presentation so they do insert object : Word Document. In the Word
document they create the bulleted list then close it so it is inserted
into the PowerPoint slide.

What consistently happens is that the first character of a sentence in
the bulleted list is offset one space from the rest of the sentence.
When you click on it to edit the slide to "fix" the space it opens in
word and the the space does not show up. When you print the slides the
space prints so it is not just a display error.

The interesting thing is that if you open the slide in a PC version of
Word it looks and prints correctly. Slides that were created a
semester ago or longer look and print correctly even though they were
created the same way. If you update any of the text on those slides
they are inserted incorrectly and get the space between the first
letter and first character just like newly created slides.

I have an example at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~techess/office/example.ppt if you would
like an example.

 

[Tom Stiller]

We've been seeing an odd behavior in Word and Office that started
happening a while ago. It is consistent across patched Office 2004 on
10.3 and 10.4. We do not have any 10.2 machines to check against. It
consistently happens on intel and PPC macs.

What is basically happening is that our professors use PowerPoint for
their classes. Sometimes they want bulleted lists in their PPT
presentation so they do insert object : Word Document. In the Word
document they create the bulleted list then close it so it is inserted
into the PowerPoint slide.

What consistently happens is that the first character of a sentence in
the bulleted list is offset one space from the rest of the sentence.
When you click on it to edit the slide to "fix" the space it opens in
word and the the space does not show up. When you print the slides the
space prints so it is not just a display error.

The interesting thing is that if you open the slide in a PC version of
Word it looks and prints correctly. Slides that were created a
semester ago or longer look and print correctly even though they were
created the same way. If you update any of the text on those slides
they are inserted incorrectly and get the space between the first
letter and first character just like newly created slides.

I have an example at
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~techess/office/example.ppt if you would
like an example.

I don't know what causes the problem but i was able to "fix" it by
changing he affected paragraphs from bulleted to to numbered and then
back to bulleted.

 

[Del]

I don't know what causes the problem but i was able to "fix" it by

changing he affected paragraphs from bulleted to to numbered and then
back to bulleted.

Could you explain a little more how you fixed it? I tried switching it
to numbered with the bullet menu and then back and I still have the
space.

Thanks,

 

[Tom Stiller]

I don't know what causes the problem but i was able to "fix" it by
changing he affected paragraphs from bulleted to to numbered and then
back to bulleted.

Could you explain a little more how you fixed it? I tried switching it
to numbered with the bullet menu and then back and I still have the
space.
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I selected the three paragraphs, clicked the "Numbering" icon in the
toolbar, clicked the "Bullets" icon and then closed word. The space
after the first letter of each paragraph was gone.

If this doesn't work for you, maybe there is something strange with the
"Bullets and Numbering" formatting in Word.