powerpoint, accented characters won't copy from Word to PPT

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powerpoint >> accented characters won't copy from Word to PPT

by mola_mil » Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:42:04 GMT

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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