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Powerpoint font changes size for no obvious reason

Asked by crescendo in Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation Software

Tags: VBA Powerpoint Font

I am creating Powerpoint slides from an Access database. The slides contains hymn words to be projected at church. I set the placeholder textframes up, add the words, then set the font characteristics, all from Access VBA. It usually works perfectly, but on one song ("Hark! The herald angels sing) the slides for the first two verses come out at font size 28, rather than the 32 I am setting programatically. The third verse is OK. It seems to be something to do with length of the verse (11 lines including blank line and chorus) because it works fine if I reduce it to 8 lines. However, if I manually edit the slide back to size 32, there is plenty of space for the words, no overflow, in fact there's space for another couple of lines.

The default font size is 32, and I set it again after I have added the text, so I can't understand why it comes out at 28. Any ideas?
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' Add lyrics
            With oSlide.Shapes.Placeholders(1).TextFrame
                .TextRange = sSlideText
            End With
            
            ' Format the lyrics
            With oSlide.Shapes.Placeholders(1).TextFrame.TextRange
                .Font.Name = LyricFontName
                .Font.Size = LyricFontSize
                .Font.Bold = LyricFontBold
                .Font.Italic = LyricFontItalic
                .Font.Shadow = LyricFontShadow
                .Font.Color = LyricFontColor
                .ParagraphFormat.LineRuleWithin = msoTrue
                .ParagraphFormat.SpaceWithin = LyricLineSpacing
            End With
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Zone: Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation Software
Tags: VBA Powerpoint Font
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