Keynote - The font Calibri is missing. Your text might look different.

Since updating Keynote app, I keep getting the following message every time I open my presentation...even when I have made other changes:

Some changes were made to your presentation. The font Calibri is missing. Your text might look different.

With over 100 slides, how can I find the font? Keynote used to make the change for you and you would never see this message again. Its so annoying. Also, why have you taken away so many of the easy functions like replacing images. Now it takes additional steps..sure hurts productivity.

iPad, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 7:41 PM

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Nov 1, 2013 6:48 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

I think the point here is that we know the font is missing, and we accept a message that tells us that, but in the old versions it only told us the first time it opened and now it tells us every time, which it never used to. There doesn't seem to be a solution to this at the moment, but sanstiger has alerted the powers that be who have passed it on to engineering.


Annoying when you think you are upgrading and end up with problems that didn't exist with the earlier version.

Nov 10, 2013 11:01 AM in response to sanstiger

I think I might have found a workaround for this problem, though I haven't tested it thoroughly. It appears, at least with my spreadsheets in Numbers, that if I open the file in the web-based iCloud Numbers app, then sync it back to my device the calibri warning goes away. It's worked this way with every spreadsheet I've tried it with, and the fix appears to persist in duplicate children of the original file on my iOS device. I haven't tried this with Keynote or Pages, though, but I imagine it's worth a shot.

Feb 6, 2014 8:01 PM in response to sanstiger

This happens on so many of my presentations I have just spent 30 minutes trying to fix one. Just one. I removed all Calibri from it. I checked that Calibri doesn't exist in the master slide. I exported to Powerpoint and used the 'Replace Font' feature, which found a few remaining instances of Calibri. I removed these on my iPad and re-exported. Finally, using 'Replace Font' again, it could find no instances of Calibri in the document.


Still I get the error message. It's a crap error message and our lives would be easier if it was removed.

May 24, 2015 7:55 PM in response to sanstiger

It took me several hours to figure it out but I was able to remove the hidden instances of Calibri so that when the presentation opens I no longer get the error message.


This is how it worked for me.


1. Find out which objects are using Calibri.

This was harder than expected. I hadn't used Calibri in the presentation so the find replace in Powerpoint and/or Keynote 09 didn't work. So I created a new Keynote presentation and drag and dropped the slides across (not all at once) until I found which slides where causing the error message to appear.


2. Apply styles to all your objects

Once I knew which slides were causing the error, I selected all the shapes on that slide and applied a style (any style, I didn't care which one). Then I did the same for all the text objects. And again for all the line objects (remarkably Calibri was associated with my line objects - I hadn't expected that). At this point you can test it - close and reopen - for me I no longer got the error message.


3. Reformat the slides back to how they originally looked

Then I just had to reformat the slides back to how the originally looked.


Note - I don't think this will still work if the offending objects with Calibri applied to it are no longer in the document and I cannot see an obvious workaround if thats the case.

Aug 27, 2015 10:53 AM in response to nickzed09

Just had this problem with a Keynote 6.5.3 presentation. It was alerting me to a different font that I thought I stripped away from every slide in my presentation. I even checked the Master pages.


I found out that the paragraph and character styles STILL had formatting requirements that needed the font in question.


It simply meant going into the styles and deleting any style that required the font. Done. It doesn't alert me to the missing font any longer!


cheers.

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