Powerpoint 2007 -- 2nd character overlaps first in textbox

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Dwayne - 25 Jul 2007 19:56 GMT

Hello,

I am having an odd problem. In textboxes, when I type out some characters,
the 2nd character of the word is imprinted right on top of it. For instance,
if I type "Ecommerce" -- the "E" and "c" overlap. However, if I type
"ecommerce" (lower case "e"), I do not have this problem. It's not an issue
with capitilization, because I can type the word "Home" and it displays fine.

If anyone has some suggestions, please let me know. I have tried tweaking
character and paragraph settings, however I may be missing something, I
suppose. However, intuitively, that wouldn't explain to me the lower- versus
upper-case "E" anomoly.

-Dwayne

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Dwayne - 25 Jul 2007 20:20 GMT

Further investigation reveals that this problem has nothing to do with being
the 1st and 2nd characters. Anywhere in the textbox, this problem can exist.
I have also started a "new presentation" where this problem does not ocurr.

It would, however, be quite nice if this problem could be resolved in it's
current context (presentation). I have about 20 different layouts in this
presention, with custom backgrounds, images, and icons. Importing will not
not be quite easy.

I am going to try and "reuse" these slides in the new presentation to see if
the problem resolves itself. And, no that note, is there a way to do a
simply "copy/paste" from presentation to presentation? I miss being able to
do that in slide sorter view. I can only seem to have one presentation
'active' at a time, and I am also unable to find a way to keep "source
formatting" (which I need for these layouts) when pasting. So, if anyone has
some guidance there, that too would be appreciated.

> Hello,
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> -Dwayne

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Dwayne - 25 Jul 2007 21:00 GMT

An additional restart of Powerpoint seems to have resolved the problem. Very
odd, indeed.

-Dwayne

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Steve Rindsberg - 26 Jul 2007 02:49 GMT

> An additional restart of Powerpoint seems to have resolved the problem. Very
> odd, indeed.

Gremlins feed on electricity.

When you turn off the electricity, they either go looking for greener pixels or
starve, weaken and die.

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Ute Simon - 26 Jul 2007 07:00 GMT

> An additional restart of Powerpoint seems to have resolved the problem.
> Very
> odd, indeed.

Good, that you could solve your problem yourself. Problems like this
sometimes occur when no standard printer is installed. So please make sure,
that you have a printer driver installed (the printer does not have to be
connected).

Best regards,
Ute

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