Inserting characters

Mar 19, 2019

I'm having trouble with inserting characters into a training module - my characters are being cropped :( If I choose a slide from the content library with a character, that slide is fine - but when I try to change the character then the replacement is cropped. I have never had this issue previously. This happens if I use the top left replace character button or the right click option. I have checked all the settings and cannot find why this is happening. I have also tested it on a blank slide and inserted a new character and it is still being cropped.

Any ideas?

4 Replies
Joey Buys

Good day Lesley.

It sounds like the 'shape' containing the character might have had it's properties changed. If the new element (new character) falls outside of the parameters of the shape, it will be cropped.

Easy way to see if this is the case is to open the 'Size and Position' properties of the character element in question.

You can access this by right-clicking on the character, then select 'Size and Position'. On the 'Size and Position' pop-up, click on the 'Size' tab. On the right-hand side of the window, look for the 'Crop from' section and the settings underneath it. Are any of the values in the Left, Right, Top or Bottom fields greater than 0px? If they are, simply change all of them back to zero (0) or simply click on the 'RESET' button at the bottom of the screen (under 'Original size'.

Hope this helps.

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