Windows
PowerPoint slide text box font size kept reverting to 11 pt
Two text boxes on a slide did not match: the added text kept changing back to 11 pt instead of staying at 10.5 pt. The technician matched the formatting between the boxes and made minor adjustments so both stayed at 10.5 pt and the text fit properly.
Killed once by someone from XL.net, on 2026-01-21.
Affects
Apps
- PowerPoint
What you see
- A text box on a slide reverts to 11 pt after being resized instead of staying at 10.5 pt.
- Two slide text boxes that should match have slightly different formatting/shaping.
Why it happens
Likely The two text boxes had slightly different text shaping/formatting, which caused the font size to behave differently.
When it shows up
A PowerPoint slide has two text boxes that should share the same font size, but one keeps snapping back to 11 pt when edited or resized.
You are in this case if:
- One text box shows 10.5 pt while the other keeps reverting to 11 pt.
- The issue follows text-box formatting differences rather than a single typed value.
1 fix below
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Someone from XL.net killed this on a Windows computer on 2026-01-21. It is written up from that one repair, so it cites no outside page.