Someone was trying to type in some Vietnamese with stacked diacritics in PP2003. The diacritics were all over the place, i.e. wrong. We copied and pasted the strings into Word2003, and they were fine.

Clearly PowerPoint 2003, unlike Word, does not know how to deal with Unicode fonts. So is it any better in the 2007 version?

Seriously, people often ask me how I get things to look ‘professional’, and are disappointed when I tell them to redraw everything. Good figures take a certain amount of effort, and forethought. Keep your scales straight, use vector graphics as appropriate (for grids, scales, ellipses, and text) and do all of your graphics all at once, not piecemeal. That way you can keep certain decisions (like line widths, scales, transparency effects, whether the transcription goes over or under the pitch track, etc.) constant over a paper. Keep your captures are large and clean as possible, and add anything you need later. And whatever you do, don’t start resizing things in the middle of a job. Grr.