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powerpoint >> Odd problem withe using indent on slides created in PowerPoint 2008

by shari.kubitz » Wed, 20 May 2009 01:24:29 GMT

I am a systems analyst and troubleshoot problems all the time, but
this has me baffled. The following behavior is not limited to one
machine (I believe both are running 10.4.11 and have all versions of
Office are fully updateg (11.5.4 with the OpenXML Converter 1.0.2).

It doesn't matter whether slides were added to an existing 2004
presentation or the presentation is newly created in Powerpoint 2008.
It also doesn't matter whether compatability mode is turned on whn
saving the Powerpoint file in 2008.

When a slide has a text box and you click the indent button on the
toolbar (whether the text box is selected or a paragraph of text, the
first line often remains but the next line appears to disappear
although you can sometimes see the text in the backgroun color with
one character to a line.

I would appreciate any ideas short of upgrading to 2008.,

Thanks so much.

Shari
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