Problem with hanging left margin in 2008

Tim Murray

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Jun 11, 2008, 8:55:49 PM6/11/08

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I've noticed an issue with a hanging left margin, as in a bulleted list, that
the second line is indented just a small but visible bit too far.

It seems to happen when opening older files from Mac or Windows; new files
are okay. In fact, it can change right before my eyes. For example, say that
I open a file someone sent me from Windows. At the start it is okay, but if I
type something into the list item, the second line jumps over just a tiny
bit.

Whether or not there is a tab at the same position as the left margin does
not matter.

Anyone else see this?

dcmurrin

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Jun 12, 2008, 10:25:59 AM6/12/08

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Yes. Do you have SP1 (updated to 12.1) installed? I bet you are. That
is when it started for me. This bug was defiantly introduced in
between the release of PowerPoint v12.0 and v12.1.
And you are right, it only shows itself in any file that has not been
originally created form scratch in 2008.

In fact I stared a thread called "Spaces inserted in wrapped text" @
microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint to try and figure out this
problem. But I'm getting no solutions.
Try justifying the text and then watch things get really screwy! :-P

It looks like the programming for where to put the space at the end of
a line has been done incorrectly. You'll notice in a correct file the
space is located after the last character in a line before it wraps to
the next line. In the buggy files (SP1) the space has been programmed
to incorrectly drop to the beginning of the next line, thus creating
the unwanted indent.

Ed

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Jun 14, 2008, 2:26:26 PM6/14/08

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I've notice this too.

Ed

Tim Murray

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Jun 14, 2008, 5:45:35 PM6/14/08

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:25:59 -0400, dcmurrin wrote:
> Yes. Do you have SP1 (updated to 12.1) installed? I bet you are. That
> is when it started for me. This bug was defiantly introduced in
> between the release of PowerPoint v12.0 and v12.1.

Come to think of it it's recent, so yes, it probably started with the update.
I feel better. Not that you have the problem, but that it's not just me.

Scott Collis

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Jun 19, 2008, 3:31:05 PM6/19/08

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Add me to the list of folks experiencing this bug. It is a VERY serious issue as most of my PPT presentations no longer render correct.

Paul_A...@officeformac.com

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Jun 19, 2008, 6:33:47 PM6/19/08

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Having the problem too! Don't know if I can continue to use ppt until this is fixed. My presos look bad and I can't afford for them to look bad!

dcmurrin

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Jun 24, 2008, 4:23:51 PM6/24/08

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On Jun 19, 5:33 pm, Paul_Acev...@officeformac.com wrote:
> Having the problem too! Don't know if I can continue to use ppt until this is fixed. My presos look bad and I can't afford for them to look bad!

Looks like Microsoft sneaked out a 12.1.1 update to office 2008 today
BUT it doesn't address our problem. I've already d/l and installed it
and the bad spaces remain.

dcmurrin

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Jun 24, 2008, 4:26:29 PM6/24/08

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Here is a link to details of the update:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822

and the update itself is on mactopia:

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_Office2008&fid=C75DB26D-D3BC-49A4-8951-DE27AE58B5A1#viewer

Tim Murray

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Jun 25, 2008, 2:35:46 PM6/25/08

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Yes, I was all fired up, only to be disappointed again.