Re: Another strange character showing up in a .PPT file

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Aaahhh ... I'm due a severe head slap -- you meant the tab settings, as in
Ruler Tabs.

Yes - now I see what you're talking about! And you're saying the presence
of those is a pretty good indicator that the file was at least touched by
Open Office?

Pretty cheeky of OO to set those - I notice that they're not in in the slide
master, and I'm pretty sure the author didn't take the time to set them
manually ...

Thanks.

--
Dave Jenkins
K5KX


"Enric Mañas" wrote:

Dave,

It appears to me that this file has been processed at some point in its
checkered past by a PPT 2007 system.

Not in this case... 2007 is not the *guilty* of *that*...
OpenOffice is... (or maybe, I've not tested all of them, another one of the
"Opened"Offices)

Click the Text Box... How many Tabs are there?

That *is* OpenOffice

Could it be a combining character of some sort that gets rendered
differently, depending on fonts installed, etc?

"RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK" Put the cursor after any parentheses... Insert >
Symbol... look for Arial Character Code 200F (no image... left of EN DASH,
EM DASH and HORIZONTAL BAR on General Punctuation when Inserting > Symbol)

I do see, as I cursor to the right across that position of each line, that
the associated font changes from Arial Narrow to Arial Unicode MS, but I
have no idea if that's significant or not.

It is plainly *bad*... hit Arial Unicode on its head... OpenOffice
introduces the "RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK" and the Arial Unicode font after every
closing parenthesis

;-)

Enric?

Dave?

;-)

Very cordialmente

Enric
--
Enric Mañas [PowerPoint MVP]



"Dave Jenkins" <david.f.jenkins@xxxxxxxx(spam-ugh!)> escribió en el mensaje
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I have a one-slide example of a problem that's cropped up - the .PPT file
can
be downloaded from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?o032xdoohzd

When this file is observed in a PPT 2003 IDE, a faint '?' character
appears
directly following the right parentheses. You can go here to see a
screenshot of what I'm talking about:

http://screencast.com/t/obGZxIaQU

It appears to me that this file has been processed at some point in its
checkered past by a PPT 2007 system. (I deduce that from the presence in
the
.PPT file of the characters "[Content_Types]" I have no idea if that's a
100% certain way of making such an identification, but it generally seems
to
work for me -- if someone knows of a more foolproof way to make that
differentiation, please -- let me know.)

If I view that file in PPT 2007, which ostensibly has the same set of
fonts
installed, the character does not appear.

I'm not sure what's really in the file. I thrashed around some in the
debugger, and it may be \u8207, but I can't find any printable character
associated with that code. Could it be a combining character of some sort
that gets rendered differently, depending on fonts installed, etc?

I do see, as I cursor to the right across that position of each line, that
the associated font changes from Arial Narrow to Arial Unicode MS, but I
have
no idea if that's significant or not.

I'm mainly interested in finding out if there's anything we could be doing
here that would inadvertently cause such a thing to occur. I'm inclined
to
think the problem existed before we even received this file, but I'd like
to
know a little more about what's really going on.

Enric? You helped a lot with a combining character issue once before -
does
this smack of the same thing?

Dave Jenkins
K5KX



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