

He was completely mystified, as was I, about what possibly could have happened to make his comment text so small and unreadable. Yikes! Who could possibly read that? That comment balloon is way too small! He was getting ready to send out another reviewed document, when he opened it up from his outgoing e-mail and saw something like this: Marked-up documents have been flying back and forth via e-mail, and the Microsoft Word Track Changes feature has made life a lot easier for him.

He’s been using Track Changes a lot lately, and it’s turned out to be a pretty handy feature for him, since he’s been doing a lot of contract work. If you are still having problems with fonts, please contact us at support.And now for a dispatch from the “Well, I’ve never seen this before” Department … Just when I thought I had seen it all, my boss threw me a curve ball, courtesy of his new-found affection for Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature. In this case, please choose another font there is no simple and legal workaround.Īlso, some downloaded fonts might contain errors in the charset, so they will not be processed correctly either. You can check this out in the font file properties via the Details tab. Some commercial fonts are protected with DRM and are not available for embedding. Don’t use more than two non-standard fonts in your presentation to keep a consistent design and small file size. Each font can take up to several megabytes of the published presentation size. Note: the file size can grow dramatically if you embed all font's available characters. pptx file, you can send it to a colleague or upload it to the Internet, and keep all the fonts displayed exactly as in the original PowerPoint. dropdown menu, you can select the current presentation only, or apply this setting to all presentations that you save.

To be safe, we recommend that you select Embed all characters, though it will take more space. Here, you can either embed only the characters used in the presentation’s text, or the font's entire character set. Go to the main PowerPoint menu on the upper-left corner.įind the embedding options at the very bottom and check Embed fonts in the file. Open a presentation that you want to share. Make sure that the Font embeddability property is either Installable or Editable. Remove the Read-only attribute if it’s checked, and then click OK. Right-click the font and select Properties.

Open File Explorer and go to C:\Windows\Fonts.įind the font that you used in your presentation (e.g., Lobster Regular). Log in as Administrator (to change font file attributes if necessary). Before embedding a font, make sure that the font file is not read-only, and that it is available for embedding.
