Since I've upgraded to Yosemite, when I open a file in Microsoft Powerpoint 2011, all the letters come up as greek alphabet letters. If I open the same presentation in Keynote, it is fine. Also, there are some letters that appear normal but majority are greek. I have checked the language and it is set to UK English. Any help?
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10), Office 2011
Figured it out.
The problem is with duplication within the Ariel font.
When installed in coordination with Office, for one reason or another, Ariel duplicates itself, presenting the Hebrew text.
Simply remove the duplication by going into Font Book and selecting remove within Ariel Black (there will be a duplicate Regular) and everything returns to normal.
Figured it out.
The problem is with duplication within the Ariel font.
When installed in coordination with Office, for one reason or another, Ariel duplicates itself, presenting the Hebrew text.
Simply remove the duplication by going into Font Book and selecting remove within Ariel Black (there will be a duplicate Regular) and everything returns to normal.
JFuh, Thank you for the response and info; I am having the exact same problem. However, I don't really know how to do this properly and don't want to mess up system fonts. I went in to Font Book and did "Validate" on Arial (which was the one that turned to greek in Powerpoint). There were 2 of them, one of which showed in yellow. I guess I can assume that was the Microsoft one but how do I know? I don't want to delete the wrong font.
I also went in to /Library/Fonts/Microsoft and saw that all fonts there were dated 2012 (including arial.ttf) while the system ones in /Library/Fonts/ were more recent (2016). So I don't know if I just delete those in the Microsoft folder or if those are the ones marked in yellow when I run "validate".
So if possible, can someone please provide more details on actual steps.
I have no idea how you figured that out, but it was pure genius! I was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn't get those strange characters out of the speaker notes section.
You deserve a medal!!
You might want to as Microsoft support.
Use the camera icon to post a screenshot here of what you are seeing.
The best forum to ask about PowerPoint problems is
Direct comparison - Keynote on left and Powerpoint on right
Powerpoint is using a legacy windows symbols font or junk bible study greek font that maps greek to latin. You need to select the text and change the font or get rid of the problem font.
Thanks for the reply - that does work BUT this was never a problem? When I select the text, it is in fact using Arial and changing to another font corrects it. But ANY Powerpoint (even those that used to work fine before the upgrade) by default loads the strange font. Any ideas why this may be? Thanks for your help so far!
Does changing the font back to Arial make the greek come back?
You definitely have not installed any bible study greek font on your machine?
Yes it does - if I switch back to Arial then it comes back (but Arial works fine in other programs)
And no I definitely haven't
Open Character Viewer and select the letter "m" and go through the Font Variation pane to see if some font has µ instead of m.
No they are all 'm' .. It's just rather bizarre!
SEarch the ms PowerPoint forum for greek or Cyrillic to find other discussions of this problem
Hi rockinaway....you probably have this sorted, I've recently had the same problem, all Powerpoints rendering this way with a crazy Symbol font.
But just for the record in case anyone else Googles this problem, this is still the first returned post.
I've found a workaround. You need to have a Arial in your font folder on your system folder and not managed by Suitcase Fusion.
so pathway is Mac HD>System>Library>Fonts (holds all the essential system fonts) make sure Arial is in this folder.
Search in help for "Font Book" and Repair to original settings
Powerpoint showing Greek letters on Yosemite?
