[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Josiehen,

Do you have a link to the template you mentioned?

Are you able to place a document where you're seeing this occur to a blog/website/skydrive etc with a link here?


Do you have the Gentium fonts listed in the Font applet in the Windows control panel? Word does not rely on having a font installed
to display the name of a font in the font dropdown. It shows what was used by the author of the document (or in this case it may be
the template). Open a document that is showing the behavior you described (changing fonts) and then use
Office Button=Word Options=Advanced, scroll to the
'Show document content' category and click on [Font Substitution] to see if Windows is substituting the font in Word for one it
can't locate as being active.

As far as switching to other character sets, it's possible that you did a keyboard/language switch depending on what is listed in
the Keyboard language layouts and the language bar settings in the Windows control panel, Regional settings applet as you mentioned.

If you use Office Button=Word Options

- What are the enabled editing languages in the Popular category?
- Are there any langauge related items listed in the Add-ins category?

It's possible to have language and font rules embedded in Word styles in a template once it's been active in Office 2007.

It's also possible that another add-in or template has also defined keyboard shortcuts that can be interfering with the ones you
expected.

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"josiehen" wrote in message ...
I use Windows XP and Office 2007, although I save Word documents in a
compatible version (.doc).

I have a downloaded template that I use for transliterating Arabic into
English characters. The default font for the template is Gentium, and the
template has several shortcuts for making underdots and lines over letters.

Today something went wrong and its using a different font when I try to use
my key shortcuts -- I am now getting a font called Simsun. The letters
produced by my shortcuts are correct but the font is wrong. I don't know how
to get my old settings back. I have tried Ctrl-All and changing the default
font to Gentium, but this doesn't work -- I still get Simsun. I have tried
re-downloading my template, opening a blank document, and pasting my working
document in, but still I get Simsun when I use my shortcuts.

I think I remember accidentally pressing some combination of keys that gave
me some chinese characters before this started. So I also got rid of the
Chinese in my language bar via Regional Settings, then re-started my
computer, but that also didn't work.

I have been working on this document for months and this is the first
trouble I've had, but its crippling.

How can I restore my document to its default settings and get rid of
whatever is making it use an unchosen font?

Thank you!
--
josiehen
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*