In PowerPoint for Office 365 for Mac and PowerPoint 2019 for Mac, you can embed fonts in a presentation. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac correctly displays fonts that have been embedded in the file. Embed fonts in a presentation file. This feature is only available to Office 365 Subscribers and in PowerPoint 2019 for Mac. Fonts won't appear that you've activated, will in some apps but not others, you can't add fonts to Font Book or turn others off, etc. Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode.
Have you ever been in a situation where your presentation looked so awesome with some amazing typography, but when youopened the same presentation on another computer, the text looked positively terrible! This behavior may happen if the fontyou used is not available on the other computer. The best solution to this problem is touse safe fonts that are available on most computers,or you may also explore the option to embed fonts in your PowerPoint presentation.
Note: Do note that all fonts cannot be embedded, and also you may not know which fonts support embedding ornot! To learn which fonts can be embedded or not, look at ourCan this font be embedded? page.
Follow these steps to embed fonts in your presentation in PowerPoint 2016:
- Within PowerPoint 2016, click the File menu to bring upBackstage View. SelectOptions, as shown highlighted in green within Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: Backstage view- Alternatively, select the Save Asoption (keyboard shortcut: F12) as shown highlighted in blue withinFigure 1, above. This action brings up the locations to save the persentation as shown inFigure 2, below. Click the Browse button (highlighted in bluewithin Figure 2). This brings up the Save As dialog box as shown in Figure 2.Click the Tools button as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2to open a drop down menu. Within this drop-down menu, select Save Options as shown highlightedin green.
Figure 2: Save As dialog box- Either way, you summon thePowerPoint Options dialog box. Make surethat the Save tab of this dialog box is selected, as shown in Figure 3, below. The optionsrelated to embedding fonts are highlighted in red within Figure 3, below.
Figure 3: The Save tab provides font embedding options- First of all, if you did not get here via the Save As dialog box, you will need to select thepresentation within which you want to embed fonts. This action is especially important if you have more than onepresentation open. To do so, click the drop-down list next to the text that reads Preserve fidelity when sharingthis presentation, as shown in Figure 4, below. Now select the presentation you want.
Figure 4: Choose the presentation for font embedding- Next, check the Embed fonts in the file option, as shown highlighted inred within Figure 5, below.
Figure 5: Choose the Embed option- Finally, you need to select from one of two radio buttons, as explained below:
- This option will only embed characters you have used in your presentation. For example, if you create asingle slide presentation with just one text box that contains the word 'AFTER', then only capital-case characters of fivealphabets will be embedded. If you want to edit the text later, and do not have the embedded font on your system, then you will notsee the original font used!
- This options gets over the limitation explained in the preceding paragraph!
- Click the OK button to accept these changes, or press Cancel to return withoutmaking changes.
Embed only the characters used in the presentation
Embed all characters
Test Embedded Fonts Before You Present in PowerPoint
Remember to open your presentation on a computer that does not have your embedded font installed to make sure that the fonthas indeed been embedded. If you find that the font was not embedded, it could be that you are looking at the presentationon PowerPoint for Mac, or other PowerPoint versions for tablets and phones. Font embedding is only supported on PowerPoint forWindows.
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Also, only True Type fonts support embedding, and even then they must have embedding options enabled. Confused? Look atour Can this font be embedded? page for amore detailed description.