[mso] Re: Highlighted text showing in Word's font box?
- From: Robert Carneal <carnealr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:49:49 -0500
Hal-
I tried this on an XP system. It didn't do it.
However, on Word 2000 (What is it that is THAT different between XP and
W2K?), Win98Se, Win 98, Win 95 and Win 3.1, it does do that; you are right
on the money.
Robert
At 03:12 PM 9/10/2003, you wrote:
>I think Works Word Processor does this. Is he using Works and not Word?
>
>Hal Cardona
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Linda F. Johnson
>Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:59 PM
>To: MSO Freelist Group
>Subject: [mso] Highlighted text showing in Word's font box?
>
>
>OK..here's a good one...one of my Word 101 online students has this
>problem and I have never heard of this before, so I wanted to see if
>anyone in here has ever seen something like this...
>
>His font dropdown list on his toolbar shows the name of the font he is
>using...but when he highlights text in the document, the actual text
>shows in the font box instead of the font name.
>
>I told him to do a Detect and Repair...but, other than that, I'm not
>sure where to go with this one....has anyone ever seen this behavior cuz
>I sure haven't?
>
>Linda
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