PPT help

[Phil_The_Rodent]

How do I show hidden characters (reveal formatting) in PowerPoint?

[rAyVoLvEz]

what do u mean by hidden characters?

[Phil_The_Rodent]

You know, spaces, tabs, soft & hard returns...

[rAyVoLvEz]

not sure if i'm right, but i dun think its possible in ppt..

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Stupid Microsoft.

Bad enough they won't let you keep formatting from one document to another or let you keep formatting when pasting over text...

[JimG]

Phil I have checked and rechecked using Power Point 2003, I am unable to fine any way to show hidden characters...when I think about it that does kind of suck. The work around would be to copy from Power Point and paste into Word...and that too is a pain in the what's it...but it works.

[cfire]

Phil, you might try pasting your text into Notepad and then copying and pasting from there into PPT. This also works for other apps including PS. I use it all the time for Director.

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Yeah. It just doesn't help when someone has already supplied half-formatted text because I'll have to redo the entire thing. I was trying to copy/paste some stuff from to/from TextEdit for minor editing, but everytime I would paste it back it would change my left-aligned 18 point Myriad to 24 point center-aligned Arial and destroy any semblance of tabs.



EDIT: Yeah, Frank, on a PC this would be a breeze. Notepad rules. This new Mac, I'm not so sure about. (Yeah, they got me the new Quad-Zion thingy and I STILL prefer PC, even though this stupid thing actually turns off when I ask it to).

[Edited on 10/5/2006 by Phil_The_Rodent]

[JimG]

Phil,

When you paste from another application you can choose to keep the source fomatting, this should solve your problem. Or at least it works for me.

[Phil_The_Rodent]

That would be great Jim. Where do I set that up?