[mso] Re: What Is Indication When Fonts Default? (Word2003)

  • From: bluefilly <bluefilly@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:33:09 +1100

the only trick i know is to put your cursor in the affected paragraph
and read the Font box. The Font box will show the font in the original
document. The text itself might be in another font. Search for "font
substitution" on the net and you might come up with something else.

kim

On 10 February 2011 13:55, Ray Shapp <rayshapp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To All,
> In Office 2003 Word, an author sent me a DOC file incorporating a font that
> was not installed on my PC. When I selected that text, the window in the
> Formatting toolbar showed the name of the font style the author had used. I
> was not aware that I did not have that font style installed. The version of
> the document on my PC defaulted to Courier without any warning or indication
> that I noticed. Does Word give any indication when it is using a default
> font in place of one that is not available? If Word doesn't give an explicit
> warning, is there a way to query the DOC file to see if it wants any missing
> fonts?

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My inferiority complex is not as good as yours.
Robin Banks, Australia
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