Notes field - text is appearing very tiny on some slides

May 30, 2013

Hi,

I'm including subtitles for the voiceover in my presentation by using the "Notes" field. On some slides, this text appears at a nearly unreadable font size. I thought at first it was dynamically sizing to accommodate lots of text, but it doesn't seem to correlate to the amount of text at all. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

19 Replies
Dwayne Schamp

To format the notes text, you should use the View -> Notes View. This way you can see exactly what size the text is on each slide as you page through. This is also the view to use when setting up formatting for your notes.

I have used the Notes Master view in the past, but sometimes that doesn't work correctly after publishing. So I've gone to checking each slide using the Notes Page view.

This will format and change the size for both the left had Notes tab and the Notes button that shows in the bottom right of the main player bar.

HTH

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Richard, 

You may not be able to actually see all your changes in PowerPoint's notes pane, such as font and color selections, but they'll show up when you publish with Presenter. If you're changes that you're making to the format/font within Notes view is not displaying when you're viewing the published version, would you be able to package your Presenter files and share them with us here? 

Richard Karel

Thanks Ashley--that's the thing--the correct font size is not showing up in the published version even though the notes master and the notes page in PPT are showing the same font size across slides.  Even reset notes layout in PPT 2013 using Jeanette's tutorial. I've got a ticket open and will hopefully post solution soon.

Christine Hendrickson

Hi Michael,

Can you tell us which version of Studio you're using, please? If it's Studio '13, are you publishing and viewing HTML5 content?

Also, how are you viewing the project files? Try to make sure you're not viewing the published output files locally. If you view a published Studio '13 presentation on your local hard drive or send it to someone else to view on their local hard drive, you'll encounter security restrictions from the computer, web browser, Flash Player, and network that'll cause various features of your content to fail.

To properly test your published content and share it with others, upload it to the environment for which it was published. Please review the article below for more information:

Tips for Managing Project Files

Thanks!

Leslie McKerchie

Hi Becky!

This thread is a bit dated, but you are welcome to reach out to Richard directly via the 'Contact Me' option on the user profile if needed as I'm not sure if he'd still be subscribed here.

Hopefully you checked out the solution that Christine shared above and are utilizing the latest update to your software as well.

Helene Caura

Hi I have the same problem with Presenter (latest version). I have 53 slides, and only one is showing the Calibri 11 into a Calibri 6 or 7 once published (or Previewed).

I have tried to copy paste from the notepad (it worked once on another project), change the font size many times, but to no avail. What's the bug here?

Jim Gates

I was able to correct the "tiny text" problem for notes in "Normal" view (Powerpoint) by highlighting the text in the notes section and adjusting the zoom to a higher percentage. It cascaded to the other slides.

The font format for notes only seems to affect the printed page.

I know the original post was old, but found this site trying to correct the original problem :) and thought that future searchers might benefit.

I'm on Powerpoint Mac version 16.45.