Microsoft KB Archive/64313

12-Point Font Changes to 10-Point Font When Pasted PSS ID Number: Q64313 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

If text is copied from Microsoft Word for Windows into a Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows text box using the Edit Copy (or Edit Cut) command and then using Edit Paste in PowerPoint, all 12-point fonts will change to 10 point.

This behavior will occur with any fonts that are 12 point in Microsoft Word for Windows and copied to a text box in PowerPoint.

This behavior occurs because Word for Windows defines the 12-point fonts as being formatted in the style titled “plain,” but PowerPoint does not have a “plain” style; as a result, PowerPoint does not understand the style. PowerPoint then substitutes what it considers to be closest to the style “plain,” which is 10 point.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.