Font changes when you copy text box and paste as picture

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This article was previously published under Q289866

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SYMPTOMS

When you copy a text box on a PowerPoint slide and then paste it into a slide in another presentation, or into another program, such as Microsoft Word, the font changes unexpectedly.

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CAUSE

This problem occurs if you have applied Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP-2) and you do the following:

Copy a text frame on a slide master and then paste it into a slide (slide A).
Copy the text frame from slide A and paste it into a second presentation (slide B).
Copy the text frame from slide B and paste it into a third presentation.

The problem occurs because the font properties for the slide master in the second presentation differ from the font properties for the slide master in the first presentation.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

276367 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276367/ ) How to obtain the latest Office 2000 service pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time       Version     Size       File name         Platform
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   03/08/2001  10:55:19p  0.0.0.0000  1,255,424  Powerpnt.msp        x86
   03/08/2001  11:11:24p  0.0.0.0000  2,457,088  Powerpnt_admin.msp  x86
   03/08/2001  11:04:48p  0.0.0.0000  2,729      Readme.txt          x86

After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:

   Date        Time       Version     Size       File name         Platform
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   03/08/2001  04:35:42p  9.0.0.5107  4,251,700  Powerpnt.exe        x86
   06/30/2000  02:59:44p  0.0.0.0000  4,096      Pptsec.mst          x86
   05/16/2000  01:10:30p  0.0.0.0000  476,672    Ppttools.ppa        x86

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3).

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