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The PowerPoint Ninja Blog covers practical PowerPoint topics, tips, and tricks.  When picking fonts for presentations or corporate PowerPoint templates, you need to be careful which fonts you choose. You may hate Microsoft’s default fonts (e.g., Arial), but if you’re considering using another font you’ll want to MAKE SURE IT’S A COMMONLY INSTALLED FONT. Why? When people go to view your file on their computers and they don’t have the same font, PowerPoint will substitute another font which may not be the exact same size or style as your original font (12 pt in one font can be smaller or larger in another font). As a result, all of your copy and labels may END UP BEING MISALIGNED OR TEXT-WRAP IN PLACES YOU DIDN’T ANTICIPATE. In other words, your nicely designed slides can turn into an UNINTELLIGIBLE, SLOPPY-LOOKING MESS simply because the computer company should have the corporate font installed. However, I’ve still seen problems with custom corporate fonts when your IT team fails to install these fonts on all new computers or re-imaged computers. When it comes to setting up a new computer or re-imaging an existing computer (i.e., restoring a computer to its default state typically after a bad crash or virus), fonts aren’t going to be the highest priority for IT. If you have both PCs and Macs at your workplace, it’s also common to run into font compatibility problems While it can be an occasional problem for internal computers, it can be a serious problem when presenting on external computers or sharing PowerPoint files outside of your company. In my current role as an an*lytics evangelist, I’m not always presenting from my own computer. My company, Adobe, has its own set of corporate fonts, which is both good and bad. The corporate fonts are unique, clean, and professional. However, they can trip up employees when they present on external computers or share slides with another company. In general, I’ve avoided using custom fonts because of the problems they create. I do use them from time to time, but I’ve learned to be