Re: Text boxes - created in PPT for Windows and viewd in PPT for Mac

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> Whenever I create a text box in PowerPoint for Windows, it looks fine to
> other Windows users, but to my colleagues who work on Macs, the text spills
> out of the text box. They have the same fonts I use.

How have you made sure of this?

> I'm assuming that the Mac version of the fonts is a little different than
> the Windows versions. But the only type of font PowerPoint allows me to embed
> is TrueType, which I believe Macs will strip out automatically and replace
> with another similar non-TT font.

Mac versions don't strip out the embedded TT fonts, but they don't use them
either, so yes, if the fonts aren't present on the Mac, PowerPoint will
substitute a different font. On the other hand, it *might* be a TT font or it
might not.

What fonts are you using? For overall compatibility, it's best to stick with
[yawn] Arial and [yawwwwnnnnn] TimesNewRoman, which should be present on all
Windows and Mac systems.

And because of slight font rendering differences between the two platforms, it's
best not to pack the text in there too tightly. When in doubt, bump the text up
and down by a point or two to see if bad things happen. If so, make the text
container a bit bigger.




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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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