Microsoft Word help - fonts

Grim/Don

Grim/Don

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I like to write short stories in my spare time at work. I'd written one short after getting a new computer and started on a 2nd. I reach a part where certain beings (trolls) are talking and I've always used a specific font for them. Opened up a past story to copy formatting, and the words had been changed into wing dings! No worries, I change the font... Nope, changed to all boxes.

Here's the weird part... I copied the text to Excel and it displayed just fine! :eek: (Cool, I don't have to try to decode/translate...) Copied back to Word and displayed as wingdings. Downloaded the font (Bruce was the name) and installed it into fonts... and nothing. I spent 2 hours (between projects) dancing with this. Finally gave the monitor the middle finger and changed to Ariel and bolded to set it off. Google searches weren't much help. I found font substitution, and change the font there, but that didn't work either.

I was ready to attempt my first rant in W&C, but after I 'solved' it by changing to Ariel I decided not to brave the jungle. Checked a couple of my other stories where I'd juggled fonts and those were hosed too. I switched to common fonts and fixed them all.

So... anyone here know what was going on and a way to fix? On a completely unrelated note, do you know where the Word planning dept is at Microsoft is located, and do they have accept ticking packages?
 
It likely has to do with copy/paste from an older version. Try startin fresh and going to the specified font rather than a font into a pasted older format.


HTH

-X
 
The Microsoft Word "helpers" don't really help do they? When they added blogging and other support packages, formatting in general became a lot more complicated.

You need to break your story into "sections" to keep the fonts and formatting localized to that section. Check into using "style" sheets for preconfigured can'ed formats so you can highlight your text and then select the format you want from the preconfigured drop-down box.
 
fast14riot said:
It likely has to do with copy/paste from an older version. Try startin fresh and going to the specified font rather than a font into a pasted older format.
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Wasn't the copy/paste that was messed up, it was the original document that I opened to copy formatting from.
 
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