![]() Along with new features, you’ll notice some new fonts (!) showing up while a few odd fonts on the original “safe fonts” list have disappeared. If you have a subscription to Office 365, you may see new features popping up often, especially if you’ve opted into the Office Insider program. The Mac version of PowerPoint has been completely updated and is almost equivalent to the Windows version. Since then, Microsoft has released a few versions of Office, including more robust versions for mobile and web. This list is often referred to as the “safe fonts” list. In the book I co-authored with Echo Swinford, Building PowerPoint Templates: Step by Step with the Experts, we included a list of 44 fonts that were common to most systems. Third, if your template will be distributed company-wide, can you be certain that everyone will embed fonts before sharing presentations? And finally, If you share files with clients, do you expect them to install fonts before opening a PPTX file? Second, when sharing and viewing files with online storage sites like Dropbox, for instance, you have no ability to install fonts and embedded fonts will be substituted. First, many fonts cannot be embedded at all. Each of these methods has caveats, though. Some fonts can be embedded and the latest versions of PowerPoint for Mac can recognize some fonts that were embedded on a Windows device. You can instruct others to download fonts and install them on their system before opening or editing a file. To be clear, you can choose other fonts for a template or presentation. ![]() This is critical information for those who build templates, especially when the templates and presentations created with them will be shared around the world. Safe fonts are those that are common to most users and therefore will not be substituted when your PowerPoint file is opened with an operating system or Microsoft Office version that is different from your own. Specifically, which fonts are considered safe to use when sharing files. There is a lot of confusing, incomplete, and often misleading information out there about choosing fonts in PowerPoint. ![]()
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