trouble copying accented characters from Word to PPT

[mola_mil via MacKB.com]

I've never experienced this problem before, but about a month ago when I
would copy text that included accented characters in Word and pasted it to a
PPT slide, the accented characters come out like funny symbols and asian
characters. I'm running 10.4.11 and using Office 2004 for Mac. This is the
same machine I've used for several years and never have this problem. The
accented characters are from Spanish, so they are not unusual characters. Any
ideas how to resolve this?

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm not sure what the cause is but I've seen some similar situations. Try
using Edit> Paste Special - Unformatted Text & see if that works better.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

If your source or destination are using an old non-Unicode font, you can get
these problems.

Update the font both ends to Calibri or Cambria and it shouldn't happen.
(Those fonts come in with the Office XML converter you can get for free from
Microsoft for Office 2004).

Otherwise, you need to laboriously track down all the copies of the fonts
you are using and make sure they are the latest versions that contain a
Unicode character set.

Hope this helps

I've never experienced this problem before, but about a month ago when I
would copy text that included accented characters in Word and pasted it to a
PPT slide, the accented characters come out like funny symbols and asian
characters. I'm running 10.4.11 and using Office 2004 for Mac. This is the
same machine I've used for several years and never have this problem. The
accented characters are from Spanish, so they are not unusual characters. Any
ideas how to resolve this?

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[mola_mil via MacKB.com]

Thank you for this advice. I will try this!

If your source or destination are using an old non-Unicode font, you can get
these problems.

Update the font both ends to Calibri or Cambria and it shouldn't happen.
(Those fonts come in with the Office XML converter you can get for free from
Microsoft for Office 2004).

Otherwise, you need to laboriously track down all the copies of the fonts
you are using and make sure they are the latest versions that contain a
Unicode character set.

Hope this helps

I've never experienced this problem before, but about a month ago when I
would copy text that included accented characters in Word and pasted it to a

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accented characters are from Spanish, so they are not unusual characters. Any
ideas how to resolve this?