Stupid stupid microsoft creatures
Sep. 12th, 2007 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanMicrosoft Powerpoint helpfully notices when I insert a Unicode character and changes its font to MS Arial Unicode. Great, fine, except that I happen to have plenty of fonts that can display Unicode, and more or less all of them are more attractive than Arial. Does anyone out there in LJ-Land know how to convince Powerpoint to stop converting my Unicode to MS Arial?
(Yes, yes, "stop using Powerpoint" is a very clever answer, but not helpful. For the record, I tried OpenOffice's version first and decided that I'd genuinely rather use Powerpoint. And I did consider just displaying PDFs rather than putting things into Powerpoint, and it was harder than I expected to format things correctly.)
(Yes, yes, "stop using Powerpoint" is a very clever answer, but not helpful. For the record, I tried OpenOffice's version first and decided that I'd genuinely rather use Powerpoint. And I did consider just displaying PDFs rather than putting things into Powerpoint, and it was harder than I expected to format things correctly.)
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If someone else had posted a better answer by now, I wouldn't be suggesting this.
Date: 2007-09-13 01:57 pm (UTC)I dunno... maybe make a copy of the Unicode font you'd like to have as your default, rename it
MS Arial Unicode, and replace the real Arial with it systemwide? It's probably somewhat dangerous (and it's not exactly a principled solution, but you already said you didn't want one of those), but it's probably easier to subdue PowerPoint by deceiving it than by attempting to reason with it.(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-13 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-09-14 02:17 am (UTC)This works on my system (mutatis mutandis; PowerPoint switches to Lucida Grande rather than Arial for me). And it's possible to change all the text in the entire presentation at once, so if you want to use just one good font throughout, this could be an acceptable workaround.
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Date: 2007-09-14 05:38 pm (UTC)The thing is, too, that many of the Unicode characters I'm trying to insert are available in the font I'm using. Switching to a different font throughout wouldn't, I fear, fix anything.