Spaces inserted in wrapped text

[dcmurrin]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

It seem SP1 has caused a problem. When I open a PowerPoint document
not ORIGINALLY created with PPT 2008 SP1 (PC file, PPT 2004 file, even
these files opened and saved as a 2008 file) I get a space in front of
every line under the first when the text wraps to the next line of a
paragraph.

For example a normal paragraph would look like this when wrapped
without hard returns:

This is the first line and
this is the second line and
this is the third

This is what i get from SP1:

This is the first line and
this is the second line and
this is the third line

An extra space in front of every subsequent line. There is no
indenting going on. I double checked each document on a non-SP1
machine and it showed no problems there. I can do a hard return to fix
the problem, but that would screw up word wrapping if i ever change
any text or resize the text box itself.

I've heard of others with this problem
but no fixes. Anyone seen this or have a fix?

 

[Richard_Starling]

It seem SP1 has caused a problem. When I open a PowerPoint document

not ORIGINALLY created with PPT 2008 SP1 (PC file, PPT 2004 file, even
these files opened and saved as a 2008 file) I get a space in front of
every line under the first when the text wraps to the next line of a
paragraph.

For example a normal paragraph would look like this when wrapped
without hard returns:

This is the first line and
this is the second line and
this is the third

This is what i get from SP1:

This is the first line and
this is the second line and
this is the third line

An extra space in front of every subsequent line. There is no
indenting going on. I double checked each document on a non-SP1
machine and it showed no problems there. I can do a hard return to fix
the problem, but that would screw up word wrapping if i ever change
any text or resize the text box itself.

I've heard of others with this problem
but no fixes. Anyone seen this or have a fix?

I too have this problem but it has been there since the first release of PP2008

 

[John_O_Hair]

I'm having the same problem now, but I didn't have it earlier. EXTREMELY frustrating. It makes my presentations look VERY unprofessional. Also, selecting the last character in the line above can only be done by going to the front of the line below and click-dragging from there.

I'm running the latest versions of 2008 and OS 10.5 if that matters.

Guess I have to make the switch to Keynote after all...

.... and yes, I know capitalization is the equivalent to YELLING!)

 

[Lennert Dorman]

We are experiencing exactly the same problem. A soft return will fix it but that's not something the user should have to do.

L.