Microsoft KB Archive/63248

PowerPoint: Fractional Widths Deactivated by SAM INIT PSS ID Number: Q63248 Article last modified on 08-31-1992 PSS database name: M_PowerPt

2.00 2.01 3.00

MACINTOSH

Summary:

When Symantec’s SAM version 2.0 virus-detection program is active and a floppy disk is inserted, SAM interrupts with an alert that asks to scan the disk for viruses. This alert causes Fractional Widths to be turned off. In Microsoft PowerPoint, Fractional Widths is active by default and there is no built-in facility for turning it off.

Because the SAM alert turns Fractional Widths off in PowerPoint, text created in PowerPoint may be misaligned or spaced incorrectly after a SAM alert has occurred.

To work around this problem, restart PowerPoint each time SAM interrupts. Restarting PowerPoint resets the Fractional Widths feature.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PowerPoint versions 2.00 and 2.01.

For more information about this problem, call Microsoft Product Support Services at (206) 454-2030.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1992.