Brierley, Sean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> More questions.
> 
> 1) Can I display non-printing characters in PPT?
> 2) Why would bullets appear aligned on-screen and not in print?
> 
> No worries if not or not known, this is a marketing problem that got
> pushed way down the food chain to me.
> 
>

Answers as of 2003 (haven't looked at 2007/VistaOffice)...

1. No, but you can select them, either intentionally or unintentionally, 
creating all sorts of fun surprises.

2. A few possibilities here. It depends how unaligned they are in print, 
what print driver was used, what printer was used, etc. First look at 
the tab ruler (the ruler with all the sliders up in the toolbar area). 
Those sliders have their own strange behavior and they can get all 
screwed up if you don't have your wits about you. Use them to set your 
hanging indents for each bullet level. Define bullets as part of the 
level, rather than manually typing bullets and spacing or tabbing to 
start the text. On the printing end, what you want to avoid is GDI-based 
output. So your best bet is with a PostScript printer. What this means 
in practice, if your office printer is a PCL printer, is that you first 
print to AdobePDF and then print the PDF on the physical printer. That 
should solve the problem.

Dick
http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/


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