It sounds to me like it already HAS been converted to Arial and converting letters used in PanRoman is using the Arial alternatives which obviously show symbols....either that or the document is corrupt....or they saved it using the "recover text from any file" file type Hard to know exactly what's causing the problem without seeing the document. If you want to mail it to me privately at linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, I'll take a look at it for you. Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sandy Crowley Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:05 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Word font anomoliy Friend has a document where they typed text. Ended up the text was PanRoman. They don't want PanRoman they want Arial. I selected All, Format, Font, Arial and nothing changes. It appears that the text was typed in Symbols even though it looks like text. I have no idea how she did it but I can't change it. Any ideas on how to convert it back to real text?=20 =20 Sandy Crowley, SDA, CDT=20 Little Diversified Architectural Consulting D:704.561.5135 | M:704.408.0458 | F:704.561.8777 www.littleonline.com ************************************************************* 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, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************