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Font Defaults to Arial in Powerpoint 2007

Jul 21, 2010 6:53AM PDT

I have Vista and Office 2007. I work on Powerpoint Presentations. Lately I find that several of the fonts I'm using are defaulting to Arial. This is the case particularly for fonts beginning with an A, for some reason (Architect, Aquaduct, Aramis...) Then yesterday, suddenly it all defaulted to what looked like Architect! I should point out that the font I'm using shows in the font selection box but it defaults to something else on the slide.

I appreciate any light you can shed on this. Unfortunately I don't understand fonts that well (truetype, etc). -Rain

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This is common when
Jul 21, 2010 11:27PM PDT
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Thank you, Bob ...
Jul 22, 2010 2:01AM PDT

...I read both articles. I will pass them on to my superior. I do PPT decks for our church services. There are four of us on the design team. All decks go into the archives and we all copy slides from those old decks. And we don't all have the same OS or Office version and, ultimately, it all ends up on the church computer which is currently running Office 2002 until someone installs something better.

When I design my decks, I never go into the master slide view. I would be afraid to monkey with it. Also, I tried the embedding trick on an old deck. It increased the size from 6MB to 19MB! Too big for us all to email to each other.

From reading your articles, it appears that the problem may be that all the computers in use on this team need to have the same fonts, is that right? However, I see that fonts are not all equal, i.e., they cannot all be shared? Would it be a solution for the church to buy these fonts for all involved? Where can we do that legitmately? All I can find is bogus-looking sites selling 1000 fonts for five bucks. (The fonts in question are Architect, Aramis and Aquaduct.)

Thanks again and for any further help. -Rain