Microsoft KB Archive/105086

Editing PowerPoint Graphic Causes Text Size to Change

PSS ID Number: Q105086 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SYMPTOMS =

The font size of text in a PowerPoint slide changes if you open the slide in Word’s Picture Editor.

= CAUSE =

Word cannot correctly edit slides pasted from PowerPoint in its Picture Editor if the slides contain text. The slides paste and print correctly, but if you double-click a graphic to edit it in the Picture Editor, the text changes size and may move in the graphic. In Word 5.0, the text becomes larger; in Word 5.1, the text becomes smaller. The problem occurs when you paste from any PowerPoint view.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Word versions 5.0 and 5.1 for the Macintosh. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= WORKAROUNDS =

  Modify the slides in PowerPoint before pasting them into Word. -or-   If a slide requires editing outside of PowerPoint, copy it to a graphics program before pasting it into Word. If the graphics program can save a graphic as a PICT file, an alternative method to copying and pasting the graphic into Word is to insert the PICT graphic as a file into Word (from Word’s Insert menu, choose Picture). 

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