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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / February 2004Unexpected font-changes
I find that several (well, four in all) long documents written in an earlier version of Word and which all used to behave without any problems have suddenly started under Word in Office XP to open in an unexpected font for no apparent reason. Three of them are to a specially-set-up template, the fourth to normal.dot. No other documents seem to be affected. (All the documents involve quite a lot of manual formating for book-titles, references, quotations, etc -- the sort of things that can't be handled very readily under pre-set styles.) Can anyone suggest what might be happening, please, and if there is any possible cure to make sure that what is set up stays set up as it should? -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read Hi John, One thing to look into is "Tools > Compatibility > Font substitution". Some fonts were removed in Office2003. Maybe you can install them from your old version, or choose better substitutes in the dialog. Greetings, Klaus >One thing to look into is "Tools > Compatibility > Font substitution". >Some fonts were removed in Office2003. Maybe you can install them from your >old version, or choose better substitutes in the dialog. Thanks, Klaus. It isn't that -- the font I used in the documents in question was Arial (which I use as a default), and that is still there all right. -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read Hi John, Can you tell what the "unexpected font" is? Maybe the document loads the style definitions from the attached template? (Tools > Templates and Add-Ins, remove the check mark in "Automatically update styles") If the font changes while you enter new stuff, it might also be some foreign language support. Asian languages often use a different font (which is also defined in the style), and if Word decides that you are typing something in Chinese, it may change the font. Greetings, Klaus > >One thing to look into is "Tools > Compatibility > Font substitution". > >Some fonts were removed in Office2003. Maybe you can install them from your [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > John Gough > This e-mail address is rarely read Hello, Klaus. >Can you tell what the "unexpected font" is? It's normally Times New Roman, though on occasion others have appeared. >Maybe the document loads the style definitions from the attached template? >(Tools > Templates and Add-Ins, remove the check mark in "Automatically >update styles") I've just done that and I'll watch what happens. I note that this appears to be a global setting -- if I turn "Automatically update styles" off it affects not just the older documents I was asking about but also any new documents I create as well. I take it there is no way of being selective? >If the font changes while you enter new stuff, it might also be some foreign >language support. Asian languages often use a different font (which is also >defined in the style), and if Word decides that you are typing something in >Chinese, it may change the font. No, it's never changed whilst I've actually been entering new stuff. (I'm spared that problem at least! :-) ) -- John Gough This e-mail address is rarely read The "Automatically update" setting in the Tools>Templates and Addins dialog box affects only the current document, unless you use File>Save As when you create new documents, in which case the setting is inherited by the new document. Stefan Blom >Hello, Klaus. > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >This e-mail address is rarely read >. It has been discovered that the "Automatically update document styles" setting can actually be saved with a template. The only way to turn this off is by using VBA. For example: 1 >-----Original Message----- >The "Automatically update" setting in the Tools>Templates [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] >> >. Response continued... 1. Open the template as a document, using File>Open. 2. Start the VBA Editor (Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor). 3. In the VBA Editor, select View>Immediate Window. In the Immediate Window, type ActiveDocument.UpdateStylesOnOpen = False and press ENTER. 4. Finally, save and close the template file. NOTE: For more information about the "Automatically update document styles" feature, search the google archives at: http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search Stefan Blom >It has been discovered that the "Automatically update >document styles" setting can actually be saved with a [quoted text clipped - 58 lines] >> >. |
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