Hi Peter,
Thanks for the input. That's just the thing though. On my machine at work
(Word07) I don't have MS Gothic installed and from following your
instructions S&FRightClickOnAStyleModifyFormatFont I see nowhere where
there's anywhere where I can set an Asian Font and Arial is listed as the
default font. Same with my computer at home (Word03)
When I go to S&FRightClickOnAStyleModifyFormatLanguage the only Language
that's set is English. I can see where I can add different fonts, but none
of them are selected. (Maybe becaues they're listed does that mean that
they're installed because they're available but if it weren't available on
other client's machines [because i'll be putting this file out on the server
for others in my company to use--03 and 07 users] that this would default to
something else and continue to be a neusance instead of reverting back to
Arial?
Also, when I insert a Text Form Field into the document, it works fine and
stays Arial but when I create a character style and apply it to the field,
that's where it changes to this MS Gothic, which obviously is continuing to
drive me NUTS!
So it doesn't seem that I have other languages turned on anywhere and I'm
not sure how the settings on my computer will affect a .dot when it's
uploaded to the server but do you see any other ways of controling this
behavior or am I just SOL and will have to live with it?
--Dax
--
I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous!
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
All the Chinese fonts have a full set of Roman letters (and lots of
stuff that doesn't appear in regular Roman fonts), and MS Gothic is
probably installed automatically.
Choose a style in the S&F panel, right-click, and choose Modify, and
in the panel that appears click Formatting Fonts. You get the same
panel you see with Format Fonts when you're out in your document,
and that's where you can change the fonts in case MS Gothic is the
Asian default (if Asian is enabled in Windows).
Or, you could simply uninstall the MS Gothic font by going to the
Fonts area of Start Control Panel.
On Aug 6, 11:58 pm, Dax Arroway
wrote:
Actually, I do have MS Gothic on my machine. My bad. But it's not a Chinese
font, it's English characters. I'm not sure where Styel(s)Font is! In
ToolsStyles and Formatting, when I click it the Styles and Formatting pane
comes open and I don't see anywhere in any of my styles where there's
anything that says Asian Fonts or Complex and I'm not sure where to look.
Can you be a bit more specific? I'm using Word 03 on a WinXP machine if that
helps. --Dax
--
I would give my left hand to be ambidextrous!
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
MS Gothic is a Chinese font. In your Style(s) Font, is there an
entry area under "Asian fonts"? If MS Gothic is chosen there, see if
you can change it to something innocuous like Arial or TNR.
There's a third area for a default font, called "Complex," which
covers Arabic/Hebrew and Indian fonts. You should also be able to make
that one Arial or TNR, too.
Presumably those two extra areas are only shown if your computer has
its Asian and Complex abilities turned on (mine were from the
beginning, so I don't know what it looks like without them.)
On Aug 6, 10:24 pm, Dax Arroway
wrote:
OK, this is driving me friggen nuts! I'm hoping someone can please help.
I have a form (Word 03) that I'm trying to use sbarnhill's SytleRef trick
with. The Useful StyleRef tricks page is:http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/S....htm#FormField
because I want to insert a Name field (client entered) and Date field
(client entered) into the footer. So far so good. I did all of the
instructions and everything works --except-- the formatting of the form
fields turn from my Normal Style Font (Arial 10pt.) to MS Gothic and I can't
figure out why or how to fix it.
I've tried switching the Style Type to Paragraph and it still changes to MS
Gothic when the style is applied to the form field. I tried deleting it and
reformatting it by entering Arial into the Formatting field ofthe New Style
dialog--still MS Gothic. And it gets weirder! If I insert a form field,
just a normal one, and apply the Normal Style to it, it changes to MS Gothic
Font even though it was all ready Normal Style in the first place! AAHHHH!!
Am I going crazy or what? Does anyone have any clue as to what the heck is
happening with this form? Where is the MS Gothic Font coming from? It's not
in any of my Styles or Normal.dot. Grrrrr.
Would someone kindly tell me where this might be coming from? 'Cause I'm
about to through my monitor out the window! I know that won't fix my problem
but it sure would feel good! I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking
about! Anyway, if any Gurus out there could please come to my rescue, I sure
would appreciate it. Much much thanks in advance!
Best,
Dax