That's another possibility. It would be interesting to see whether Word is
retentive of fonts ever used as it is of styles in the "Styles in use" list.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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I don't think so, although it's possible that I inserted something in
Symbol
font at one time and later removed it. This is a "Lorem ipsum" file with
an
assortment of indents, graphics, and formatting that I use (usually
calling
it from Include File) for experiments. All the characters are in
non-symbol fonts and there are no fields.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Is it possible that you've inserted a character from the Symbol font
as a SYMBOL field? Word used to actually display these fields, and
you could edit them. Now it seems to be done "behind the scenes," but
symbols from non-Unicode font are still protected in some way so that
if you change the font of the surrounding text, they are not changed.


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Ken Benson wrote:
Is there a way to find out which fonts are used in a particular
document? I get a lot of Word files to be published on CD, and I
need to make them as generic as possible. I know how to make Word
show me missing fonts (Tools|Options|Compatibility|Substituted
Fonts), but I don't know how to make it show me fonts used (unless
I uninstall all my fonts :^)).

Ken Benson

Hi Ken,

Probably the easiest way to find the fonts in use is to open the
document with the setting "Recover text from any file" in the "Files
of type" box of the Open dialog. ***WARNING: be careful not to save
the document while it's open in this form!*** Near the bottom of the
document you'll see a list of the fonts used.

This isn't 100% reliable. For example, I have a document that claims
by this method that Symbol font is in use, but searching for Symbol
font in the document itself finds nothing. However, I haven't yet
seen it miss a font that really is used.

Secondary warning: In earlier versions of Word, the "Recover text"
setting is sticky -- it will still be there the next time you use
the Open
dialog --
and if you save a document that's been opened that way you will lose
all its formatting. In Word 2003 (and, I think, in Word 2002) this
was fixed, so the setting will return to "All files" after each use.
Always pay attention to what's in the "Files of type box".

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Jay Freedman
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