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Preview for MAC on Retina . Upgraded to Preview. Brought up some old PPT files and the cursor will not line up with the the text on the screen. Cursor is actually outside the text box. Impossible to work with.
New presentations created in Preview are fine. What do I change to get the old PPT to work.
Thanks.
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Jim and all, I think I found the culprit and I did a new smiley face entry as well.
Having text cursor issue where text and curser do not line up horizontally.
Only happens when the page is larger than the screen and sliders appear side and bottom that allow you to move the page around so you can see everything.
When the sliders appear they take image space and cause the page to resize smaller and shifted to the right slightly in the viewing window. However, the ruler above does not adjust and the page is actually no longer in alignment with the ruler. What must be happening is the cursor remains aligned with the ruler but the character image is not. The cursor is still adjusting itself to the variables of character spacing and not to the physical display of said text.
So the text resizes but the cursor remains locked to the original dimensions and to the ruler at the top which does not changes to match the smaller document image.
It is not template specific. It happens with every and all templates including the standard ones. Look closely at this screen shot.
Not sure if this is specific to my Retina iMac. Please fix, it is a royal pain.
Is this an old template saved in an old PowerPoint file format? If so, try using File > Save As and changing it to a current file format and see if that improves the situation.
It seems to be template specific. We have a custom template from work. When I switch to a std template it goes away and when I switch back, I get the problem again.
I tried to switch fonts but that did not fix the problem either.
This only happens in MAC Preview, not on released Windows and not in MAC 2011
I will smiley face the issue as well, again. I did that the second day of the Preview. Not sure you will see the cursor as it blinks on and off
With a PowerPoint window open displaying the issue, please click on the smiley face in the upper right corner of the PowerPoint window. Describe the problem, include a screenshot (this will automatically capture your open window) and submit. The Preview version is intended to catch exactly these kind of bugs.
What is the format of the old files? Try saving the files to the newer version format and see if that helps you.