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    <p>I need to copy text from one PowerPoint presentation to another. However, I have problems copying special symbols, such as smileys, which appear in the target presentation as empty boxes. Looking at the Open XML file in the original presentation, I can see that the <code>Run</code> containing the smiley has a "SymbolFont" attribute:</p> <p><code>&lt;a:sym typeface="Wingdings" /&gt;</code></p> <p>However, in VBA, <code>Shape.TextFrame2.TextRange2.Font</code> =the Font of that <code>Run</code> - shows Arial.</p> <p>How can I determine the SymbolFont of a text <code>Run</code> using VBA or C# (not XML)? Then I could specify that SymbolFont in the target presentation.</p> <p>Perhaps there other ways for copying the text that do not involve XML?</p> <p>Note that this problem happens not only with Smileys; other special characters may show different SymbolFonts, such as:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a:symTypeface = "Symbol", PitchFamily = 18, CharacterSet = 2&gt; </code></pre> <p>Code example:</p> <pre><code>getRuns(TextRange2 paragraph) { foreach(TextRange2 run in paragraph.get_Runs(-1,-1)) _myRuns.Add(new MyRun {_text=run.Text, _font=run.Font} ); } copyRunsToParagraph(TextRange2 paragraph) { foreach(MyRun run in _myRuns) paragraph=paragraph.InsertAfter(run._text); } </code></pre> <p>Note: <code>Run.Font</code> seems to return only the Latin font, not the Symbol font, e.g., Arial but not Wingdings. As I wrote, different symbols may have different SymbolFonts, so always using Wingdings does not work.</p>
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