Odette Grille Canada Local time: 15:20 Member (2002) English to French + ...
Oct 27, 2011
Hi
I am working (ENG to FR) on a text in pptx format. The police is Calibri 16 but when I type an é or a ç, the police automatically changes to Arial. I have to highlight the one letter and change the police from the top of the page toolbar. Even if I cut a sentence with the right police on all letters (after I have corrected through highlighting etc.) , the é and ç reverts to Arial. I have set my general police to Calibri 16 from the Format menu. I also tried to select and apply the format to my text before typing but to no avail. (Idem for cutting from a word format and pasting)
Does anyone know of a set up I missed or what I can do to avoid this painstaking highlighting of letters one at a time.
Thank you
Ode
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Kate Chaffer Italy Local time: 21:20 Member (2009) Italian to English
Police = font
Oct 27, 2011
Hi Odette,
I'm sorry I can't help with your problem but you might be better changing the word 'police' to 'font' to make it clearer for others.
Kate
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tapirus Turkey Local time: 22:20 Member (2011) English to Turkish + ...
weird thou?
Oct 27, 2011
Hi,
If the text box is a copied version from another text with a different font (police) which was previously used in other slides OR
If the text box is not plain text but heading box originally;
then the font always plays this game with you (I remembered the same problem from my presentations). What I did was to create a plain text box in the slide and put all text again into it by formatting it to Calibri 16. Or change the font for entire box not by selecting single letter but clicking on the box itself and changing font to Calibri.
This may occur because Office pptx realizes ç and é as symbols and symbols always takes the default font.
It is weird because I created two slides to test this and make a text boxes in it. I coped them several times and then changed fonts to Calibri 16 for one of them. I also tried to enter letters é and ç. Font did not change to Arial.
Solution: If the general font is Calibri for entire pptx, then before you translate the text in the box, just click on the slide and select all from the edit menu. Change font to Calibri.
I hope there should be some very short/quick answers and someone drop it quickly.
Arzu
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Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 20:20 Member (2000) Russian to English + ...
Create shortcuts from Calibri font
Oct 27, 2011
Since Calibri does include these accented characters, you could bring them up in the Insert>Symbol menu and create shortcuts for them, e.g. ctrl+e for é and alt+c for ç. Then you can use these combinations to insert these characters.
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Tony M France Local time: 21:20 Member French to English + ...
Werecat
Oct 28, 2011
Since I discovered the Werecat utility, I don't bother to translate directly in PPT any more, it's too much hassle!
I don't know if this would solve your problem, but what I do is export the PPT text into Word using Werecat — no longer supported, but still downloadable, I believe from this site:
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