[dba-Tech] PowerPoint behavior -- text formats change whenusingPromote

Susan Harkins ssharkins at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 10:12:04 CST 2008


I was copying text from Word and I think that was the problem -- but I don't 
really understand why -- something with unseen/unknown format codes I 
suspect.

Susan H.


> Hi Susan,
>
> I tried to duplicate what you said you did.  My experience did not match
> yours.  I got exactly what I expected - the promoted text became the
> heading on a new slide.  No unexpected changes happened to the text
> remaining on the original slide.  The only change I would expect would
> be a font-size increase to make use of the additional space - if that
> setting is turned on and if the space change is significant.  The
> setting is under AutoCorrect > AutoFormat as you type > AutoFit body
> text to placeholder.  Is that possibly what's going on?
>
> I'm using Office 2003.
>
> Tina
>
> Susan Harkins wrote:
>> When I click Promote to move text to a new slide, PowerPoint changes the
>> font formats for the text that's left in place. The body of the message
>> takes on the title formats. This is the oddest behavior -- can someone
>> explain it and tell me how to avoid it?
>>
>> Susan H.
>>
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