A scissors instead of a bullet?
Jul 18, 2011
By
James Mazur
I have never seen this one before-maybe someone else has. I am working in Office 2010 with a template that was probably created, according to the Properties, around 2000. Which means, in all likelihood there is some major corruption of the PPT template. Problem 1. All paragraphs in the Notes section begin with a bullet, which is NOT there or at least visible in PPT even in Notes View. Problem 2. Instead of a 3rd level bullet appearing on the slide, it displays a SCISSORS. Yup, a scissors!
Ideas anyone?
Thanks,
JT
10 Replies
Can you post a picture of it?
Cristina, here you go!
Wow, that's crazy! Maybe the master slide of that PPT template has a picture of scissors imported as a bullet. Maybe someone else created that template and imported the picture of the scissors and it is somehow associating it with that bullet level??
Thanks Cristina, I'll look again at the master slide and look for gremlins. Why would anyone in their right mind want to use a scissors for a bullet? Obviously it's getting it from somewhere. What's really strange is that it only shows up when I publish in Articulate-otherwise it looks as it should in PPT 2010.
Maybe it's a WebDing?
This is an issue support should be aware of. The PPT publishes fine, although slow as mud, in PPT 2007, but NOT fine in 2010.
I recognize the scissors bullet. Pretty sure it was one of the default bullet options in microsoft products in the late 90s. I could be very wrong, however.
Hi,
It is certainly a "standard" character - you can see it here in MS-Word, it's character code 34, Wingdings.
I suspect the suggestion of the Master Files is correct; play around with that and it should dissappear.
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Hope this helps.
Bruce
Yes - now you mention it I think you are right...
Bruce
I see this happen a lot in Articulate, especially for Smart Art conversions. We get more consistent results by using a graphical item (icon, shape, etc) as a bullet that we group with the text box, instead of using the built-in bullets in PPT.
Thanks All!
Because it publishes fine in PPT 2007, I suspect the translation of the unicode is not being handled properly in PPT2010.(32 bit vs 64?) I'm afraid I'll have to muddle along and publish in 2007. Thanks again for your ideas!
Jim
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