Squashed characters in all documents

[popet]

I am experiencing a problem with the spacing between characters whilst working in a powerpoint doc. The characters seem to be overlaying each other.

Only certain characters i.e. capital G, numbers etc are affected.

I have tried to copy formatting from other documents that were previously not affected, but upon opening these they too are suffering the same problem!

Any suggestions welcomed!

Very frustrated!

 

[Andri]

I have a similar problem, im trying to read a ppt document from school that I downloaded and number are all scrambled or squashed, like like (a+a+a+a=4a) becomes (aaaa4a) with the pluses behind the characters. VERY VERY frustrating when your trying to learn something that you cant ever read :/

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

I am experiencing a problem with the spacing between characters whilst working
in a powerpoint doc. The characters seem to be overlaying each other.

Only certain characters i.e. capital G, numbers etc are affected.

I have tried to copy formatting from other documents that were previously not
affected, but upon opening these they too are suffering the same problem!

Any suggestions welcomed!

Very frustrated!

Hi

It sounds like it¹s likely that the font font used when the presentation was
created is not identical or is completely missing from your computer. I
think PowerPoint is substituting a font that it thinks is as close as
possible to the original, but it is not exactly the same.

Try to determine the exact font that was used and then install it onto your
computer. That most likely will fix this problem.

-Jim

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[gofigures]

can you select the text by placing your cursor in the text box, then
dragging it to select the text, apple-C to cut, then under the Edit
menu> paste special, and select "paste unformatted text."

does switching fonts work? that is, select the text, then pull down a
different font from the Formatting Palette?

If switching fonts does work, you can "batch' replace the fonts
throughout your document. First save your file as a new filename. Then
in the Format menu> Replace fonts... . Select the "bad" font in the
"replace" pull down menu and a new font like helvetica or something
safe from the With... pull down menu, then click replace. You may
need to go in and tweak things once you've finished with this.