strange squares in dotted lists

Hi Marco and welcome to Heroes,

Can you post a screenshot of the issue?

Hi Brian,

thank you for the answer in the following you can find 2 png files with the comparison ppt-flash. I didn't put the whole slides for a matter of space. Any idea? :)

i noticed that i can upload just one file per post... here is the second one

Hi Marco,

I'm not sure what is causing that issue.  I would suggest you submit a case by following the steps below.

Please create an Articulate Presenter package, then upload the zip file to our server. You can review how to do this here: 

Send to Articulate Presenter Package – Articulate Presenter ’09 Help

Upload the resulting zip file from your computer to our server using this upload form: 

Articulate Support - Upload Your Files for Review 

Please be sure to include a description of your issue, your version of PowerPoint, version of Windows and version of Presenter '09 which you can find in Help and Support -> About Articulate Presenter. Please also include the URL for this thread so we can follow up with you in the forums.

hi Brian,

I do not think I can do that, it is copyright protected material and it belongs to the people I am working for.

I use ppt 2007, win xp sp3, articulate 5. I will try using different fonts, animations and ways to make the lists instead, even if I thought all this stuff were supported by default...

Thanks the same.

Marco

Hi Marco,

It's too bad that you can't send the files over.  You may want to try repairing your installation of Office.  Sometimes, you can get funky results with a corrupt installation of Office.  Please use the following method to repair your Microsoft Office installation:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924611

Hi Brian,

ok, i will give it a try (and i might try also on another pc)

thanks for the interest, bye!

Just had the same exact problem - drove me crazy since it kept cutting words off on my text.

I changed the animation type from WIPE RIGHT to FADE and problem went away!

Looks like it's something related to the WIPE RIGHT animation on the last line etc...

PP 2010 here!

thanks Lou,

but the problem is: no animation in the slide... any other guess?

Other than doing a "stop over" in Notepad like this......

1  Copy your text (in Flash or werever)
2  Open notepade and paste it in to Notepad (remove any odd characters etc...)
3   Select all the text in Notepad, copy it (yes you will need to copy everything from Notepad, even though it's the same thing you pasted there from someplace else)

4  Now paste the Notepad tect  in to PP.

You're sort of using Notepad as a stopover (or filter if you prefer that term) to get rid of any formatting associated with the original text.

Maybe it will help?

Hi Lou,

that is a trick that I often use, I should check if it may work! good suggestion, thanks

by the way, since i am starting from ppt (and i am not able to deal with flash), i think that some formatting will be necessary... i will give it a try ;)

Marco -- I would say you have a space character or a character that is not recognized by articulate. I have seen this issue in other software where I'm writing a character in a text editor such as word  and then I copy and paste it into a different application. I have seen apostrophe's replaced with single quotes or vise versa. I have also seen the dash character and bullets don't come over as bullets and I get a pipe symbol instead. By copying and pasting from notepad you are in essence removing the formatting implied by the other application which causes the fonts to appear correctly in the other application. That's why Lou's solution works.

James,

I definitely agree with you. In fact that character should be a new line one. but i think that it will be lost in i get back to notepad, since it is in a ppt list. I will see in the next days and i will let you know if it works

You may also try making two separate text objects and then manually position them to avoid the need for the cr\lf char.