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? -- -------- My inferiority complex is not as good as yours. Robin Banks, Australia bluefilly@xxxxxxxxx ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu at the top. This will allow you to unsubscribe your email address or change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to share files with the group, you must join our Yahoo sister group. This group will not allow for posting of emails, but will allow you to join and share problem files, templates, etc.: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MicrosoftOffice . This group is for FILE SHARING ONLY. If you are using Outlook and you see a lot of unnecessary code in your email messages, read these instructions that explain why and how to fix it: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v28/greg28.htm *************************************************************