Why is Autofit not working on Placeholder text in PowerPoint 2003.

[whitneysw]

On a couple of slides that have nothing but title and text, plus a couple of
small Master page items like page number, etc., I cannot get AutoFit to work,
no matter what order in which I invoke it; i.e., through the AutoCorrect
settings or through the pop-up on the Placeholder itself. HELP! Running XP
Pro, all latest updates for Office and Windows, on an HP Compaq nc8000.

 

[PPTMagician]

Try reapplying the layout. Click on Format, Slide Layout, choose the correct
layout, click on the dropdown arrow, reapply layout.

 

[whitneysw]

Tried it. Didn't work.

Try reapplying the layout. Click on Format, Slide Layout, choose the correct
layout, click on the dropdown arrow, reapply layout.
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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com

 

[PPTMagician]

Is the text too big for the placeholder? That's the only time you'll
actually see the AutoCorrect pop-up. Try resizing the placeholder to a
smaller size and see if the text shinks with it.

If the text in your placeholders are larger than you want, change the
SlideMaster by clicking on View, Slide Master.
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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com

 

[whitneysw]

There must be something drastically wrong with my file, because all of the
parameters you've mentioned are correct, and yet it still won't work. I'm
stumped.

 

[PPTMagician]

I guess you could try 2 old standbys:

Click on Help, Detect and Repair

and if it's isolated to a this single presentation, try HTML round-tripping:
http://pptfaq.com/FAQ00526.htm

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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com

 

[whitneysw]

I FOUND IT! I flashed on the problem this morning while I was waiting for my
train... AutoFit wasn't working because I had static line spacing selected
with POINTS, not LINES. I could keep my line spacing, I just had to switch
the dropdowns to "Lines" (so I was getting fractions of lines, like 1.1 and
..42 space before), and voila -- AutoFit worked like a charm!

 

[PPTMagician]

So Autofit doesn't work in PPT XP if line spacing is set to points instead of
lines?
Good to know.
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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com