Bug: Notes randomly change font size / no way to undo

Same problem; for me it seems to happen when I create a PDF with slides+notes from the Print dialog. So far, found neither fix nor workaround. Driving me mad, and possibly driving me to use a different program if no fix appears.

I'm experiencing the same problem. Worse, in my case the 12 point Helvetica font is unchangeable. I select it, but cannot change it to anything else. The only solution has been to create a new slide, copy the content to the new slide, and then copy the notes with the formatting stripped from the notes.

Unfortunately, I don't have a fix either. As popq suggested, the problem appears to arise when exporting the presentation. In my case, I exported it as a PDF (without notes) and a PPT, so I can't say for sure which was the offender. In future, I will avoid the prolem by duplicating the presentation, and exporting from the duplicate version, which I will trash after the export is complete.

I just discovered a solution to my problem of not being able to change the font. If I duplicate the slide, I can change the font on the duplicate version. Still doesn't solve the problem, but reduces the aggravation factor slightly.

This much is certain: When you print from Keynote, a bug resets most or all presenter notes to Helvetica 12 and grays them out, preventing any changes in the notes (slides are unaffected). The same goes for saving to PDF, which the Mac interprets as printing.

So when you print any Keynote slides with presenter notes, do this: Save file > Print > Close (without saving) > Reopen.

Apple engineers duplicated the problem the other day and have put it on their to-fix list . . . or so I was told by the nice man at Apple Support.

The first time it happened I had pasted some text, so hitting Undo got rid of the teensy type. But after printing, no changes can be made to the note formatting. Hideous! Duplicating the slide does work, thanks for that workaround!

I know this is a long shot, but now that's it's almost a year later, has anyone ever come across a solution to this??

Got a big presentation tomorrpw and Keynote just started to pull this trick. I don't even have to be outputting it in any way. The default tiny presenter font juat changes when I go to look at that slide. It's a wack-a-mole. Fix it here and it pops up there. Making dupes but that's no guarantee.

I've got so much work into this, still am not done and I've got a little over 24 hourse to finish this BUT is it all for naught?!? Arrgghh!! Appreciate any suggestions beyond the replace one text box at a time fix.

Also had the same problem as Drdul. Sometimes can't even select the changed tiny type to fix it or worse it kinda disappears!

ANYBODY????

Thanks!!

I was having same problem under tight deadline when I tripped across a solution that worked for me, at least.

REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS!

Everything was fine after that and the problem did not reoccur. *whew* Good luck!