How is vertical alignment similar to and different from horizontal alignment?

What should I do to prevent Powerpoint Textbox Text Horizontal Alignment change after save as image?

• I have a Powerpoint figure that needs to be saved as an image. In the Powerpoint, the texts in the boxes are aligned in the middle (horizontally). As shown here: However, after I save the image as png, pdf et al. The horizontal alignment will be changed to left. Any idea what's going on here? How to make the texts align in the middle of the boxes? I'm using Powerpoint for Mac 2011. Thank you for your help!

• Answer:

  I tried doing this on MS PowerPoint 2007 and it did what it was supposed to. There was no misbehavior in terms of alignment. However, I have faced alignment issues when an MS-Office file is saved as PDF or PNG. (Specifically, the vertical axis title of an Excel Chart changed from horizontal to vertical). You may try doing one of these: 1.  If you are using Microsoft Office's "Save As PDF" add-in, try using an alternate converter like CutePDF (it solved the alignment issue of an axis title mentioned above) or a similar utility available for Mac. (Try, http://download.cnet.com/Mac-PDF-Converter/3000-18497_4-75676755.html) 2. If you aren't working with many slides, you can try grouping all the text boxes and arrows (going by your image), cut, paste special as Picture (Enhanced Metafile). This way, the text alignment won't change. 3. Extremely crude method: View each slide in Slideshow mode, take a screenshot, paste it in MS-Word (or Mac's equivalent of MS Paint) and convert the Word file into PDF/PNG.