Difference in font look when published to Flash

Hello Everyone,
When I publish my project to Flash, the font does not look the same. When I am in Captivate 4 it looks the same, everything is set to arial12pt but as you can see from the 2 bottom examples, they don't appear to look the same in the SWF file. Any ideas why this is happening? I've recreated the project duplicating the slides thinking that this might keep the same format but alas no. I've even copied the text from a Word document into notepad in order to see if the formatting from Word was doing it but again no.
Please help!
Thank you in advance,
Tina

Hi again
Ideas, sure! You can't paste or insert buttons on Question slides.
Seriously, if you are editing a Question Slide, look at what is available on the Insert menu. You may not insert Buttons, Click Boxes, Text Entry Boxes, Zoom Areas or Rollover Slidelets.
Question slides are a different beast than regular slides. They don't behave the same way.
So assuming you were able to insert a button, what would it be programmed to do when the user clicked it?
Cheers... Rick
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