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June 28, 2017
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how to stop Adobe from increasing font and line spacing.

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When converting excel spreadsheet into adobe, several things happen. Graphics move up or vertical cell spacing decreases. From the answers to my last question, there's nothing I can do.

But what about line spacing and font size.

I set it at Tahoma 9 in Excel, single spaced.

Excel makes it 9.09 and line spacing 1.30. Can it stop that, and if so, how? When I click on edit, everything has put into text boxes...seemingly randomly. I'd rather not have to change the text in each box individually!

Thanks,

Stephanie

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

The answer is similar to what was responded to you in <creating pdf from excel - cells truncate! >.

Microsoft is totally responsible for all the formatting  including text point sizes, leading, spacing, line breaks, etc. when either printing or exporting, regardless of whether you use Microsoft's built-in save as PDF or the Adobe save as Adobe PDF functionality.

Regrettably, this isn't a new issue – we've seen it at Adobe for over 25 years in terms of output of any type of Microsoft Office applications. And it isn't anything that Adobe can do anything about.

This is something you need to complain to Microsoft about.

          - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
Legend
June 28, 2017

The answer is similar to what was responded to you in <creating pdf from excel - cells truncate! >.

Microsoft is totally responsible for all the formatting  including text point sizes, leading, spacing, line breaks, etc. when either printing or exporting, regardless of whether you use Microsoft's built-in save as PDF or the Adobe save as Adobe PDF functionality.

Regrettably, this isn't a new issue – we've seen it at Adobe for over 25 years in terms of output of any type of Microsoft Office applications. And it isn't anything that Adobe can do anything about.

This is something you need to complain to Microsoft about.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
sadears59@comcast.met
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June 28, 2017

Hi Dov,

So if it's all on Microsoft, and what I have set is 9 pt, single space, why is it changing? Also, though I'm pretty sure I know the answer, how can I make the graphics stay put. In Adobe's defense, they move when I change views in Excel as well.

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
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June 28, 2017

You will need to have Microsoft answer to your questions. We don't have their code to look at or modify. We can't control what they do. Users have been complaining about this type of thing for years. Sorry! 

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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