Text alignment changes after paste

Question

When I copy a shape (e.g rectangle) that has some text inside and the text is left aligned, from a presentation and paste in into another presentation in majority of the files in keeps the left alignment, but in some files the alignment of the text changes to center alignment. This is not related to a specific computer and it seems to be a setting in a specific file because when this happens no matter on which users’ computer I test it with the same destination file the result is the same.

Any suggestions what settings might affect this ?

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Best regards, Harvey

Answer 1

Doesn't surprise me to hear that. Wonder if MS has figured out what the issue is? (Surely one of those major corporations has filed a support incident with them.) I've run into the same issue occasionally, and I've not been able to come up with a fix.

When it has occurred here, I have had to use PPT 2003 to import the slides.

As a matter of fact, the slides that were affected had had formatting applied to those textboxes via an add-in. (I'm sure not the same as Harvey's, I'm sure.)

I've also had issues when using the eyedropper and/or format painter when creating master slides and layouts, so I now always format all the placeholders there by hand.

I think it's got something to do with theses various non-manual formatting applications, but I've no idea what....

Answer 2

This is definitely a bug with PowerPoint 2007 interpretation of PowerPoint 2003 files.

Trust me, major corporations are having a major head-ache dealing with this.