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B@discussions.microsoft.com John B

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Jan 13, 2010, 9:25:01 AM1/13/10
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Is there a way to find where specific fonts have been used in a PowerPoint
presentation. The Contents tab of the Advanced Properties pane list the
fonts that are used in a presentation but not where. MS Word will search for
fonts with the find dialogue. I am looking for similar functionality with
PowerPoint.

Steve Rindsberg

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Jan 13, 2010, 12:56:34 PM1/13/10
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There's nothing like this built-in.

When I was running a service bureau and had to track down rogue fonts fairly
often, we always kept an oddball font or two installed on the PCs. Working on a
copy of the presentation, we'd use Format, Replace fonts to replace MysteryFont
with AlephBeth (a Hebrew font, one that neither we nor our clients ever used).
Then we could manually/visually scan for Hebrew-looking text.

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Mark

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Jan 13, 2010, 2:53:54 PM1/13/10
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On Jan 13, 9:25 am, John B <John B...@discussions.microsoft.com>
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This should be doable in VBA. Are you on a Mac or PC? What version of
PPT are you using

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