Powerpoint font stuck on PMingLiU

[Dan]

I have a number of autoshapes that have text in them,
formatted with bullets (*) and sub-bullets (-). All of
the text is Arial and that's how I want it to stay.

However, at the very last character, when I hit return to
start a new line, Powerpoint gets confused and believes
that "PMingLiU" is the selected font. After I type a
letter is reverts to Arial, but this is a problem because
I want to distribute this file as a template and I can't
have anything come back incorrectly formatted.

I've now removed all foreign language fonts and manually
deleted mingliu.ttc but it still is stuck.

Can anyone help?
Thanks!
- Dan

[Kathy J]

Dan,
Does it help to use Format--> Replace fonts and replace the PMingLiU font
with Arial?

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[@powerpointworkbench.com Glen Millar]

Hi,

In addition to that, do you have Asian support installed for Office. If so,
do you need it?

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[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <0c6901c46e98$fdefc4d0$a401...@phx.gbl>, Dan wrote:
> I have a number of autoshapes that have text in them,
> formatted with bullets (*) and sub-bullets (-). All of
> the text is Arial and that's how I want it to stay.
>
> However, at the very last character, when I hit return to
> start a new line, Powerpoint gets confused and believes
> that "PMingLiU" is the selected font. After I type a
> letter is reverts to Arial, but this is a problem because
> I want to distribute this file as a template and I can't
> have anything come back incorrectly formatted.

Position the cursor at the last character or even the next to the last
character to make sure, then press DELETE a couple times. Retype any text you
deleted if necessary.

Save and see if that solved the problem for that text box.

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[DANIEL RAICHE]

I was able to change the font to MingLiU, however, when I try to use Replace Fonts the only options to replace the font MingLiU with are MingLiU or PMingLiU.  I can't get Arial to appear in the lower dropdown box.

 

So unfortunately that doesn't solve it.

- Dan

 

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[DANIEL RAICHE]

I've removed Asian support, which I don't need.  But unfortunately that doesn't solve it.

- Dan

 

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[DANIEL RAICHE]

I've tried deleting the end of the line, the ending text, and all of the text.  No matter what I do, after I type a line and hit enter, the Font dropdown selector shows "MingLiU" until I type the first character, when it switches to Arial.

 

So unfortunately I think I'm stuck!

- Dan

 

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[Steve Rindsberg]

In article <OCe7pGCc...@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, Daniel Raiche wrote:
> I've tried deleting the end of the line, the ending text, and all of the
> text. No matter what I do, after I type a line and hit enter, the Font
> dropdown selector shows "MingLiU" until I type the first character, when it
> switches to Arial.

If you want to email me a *SMALL* version of the presentation, perhaps just one slide
that demonstrates the problem, I'd be happy to have a look.

steve at-sign pptools dot com

If you can't get it down to a meg or two max, don't email it; it'll get rejected or
deleted, one of the two.

>
> So unfortunately I think I'm stuck!
> - Dan
>
>

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bl>,
> Dan wrote:
> > > I have a number of autoshapes that have text in them,
> > > formatted
> with bullets (*) and sub-bullets (-). All of
> > > the text is Arial and
> that's how I want it to stay.
> > >
> > > However, at the very last character, when I hit return to
> > >
> start a new line, Powerpoint gets confused and believes
> > > that
> "PMingLiU" is the selected font. After I type a
> > > letter is reverts to
> Arial, but this is a problem because
> > > I want to distribute this file as
> a template and I can't
> > > have anything come back incorrectly formatted.
> >
> > Position the cursor at the last character or even the next to the last
>
> > character to make sure, then press DELETE a couple times. Retype any text
> you
> > deleted if necessary.
> >
> > Save and see if that solved the problem for that text box.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP

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