In Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, when you open and close a Microsoft Excel 2000 embedded chart that contains text boxes, you may experience any of the following symptoms:

•	The text boxes may disappear. -or-
•	The text boxes appear truncated. -or-
•	The font properties may change.

This behavior occurs if your display resolution is set to 1024 by 768 or lower.

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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date       Time      Version     Size       File name        Platform
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   02/22/2001 3:10:21p  0.0.0.0000  1,716,048  EXCEL.msp        x86
   02/22/2001 3:32:21p  0.0.0.0000  4,332,124  EXCEL_Admin.msp  x86
				

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

   Date       Time      Version     Size       File name        Platform
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
   02/21/2001 11:40:04p 9.0.0.5021  7,159,853  excel.exe        x86
				

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).

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