[CyberTaz]

That being the case, the TNR originally used must have been a different
"flavor" - perhaps even a different type of font altogether. With WP files
it could also be a matter of how the font data is encoded.

I'd still take a look in the Font Substitution dialog - Something is causing
the use of Shruti & font substitution is done because Word can't locate the
font the doc claims it needs or because Word doesn't understand what it's
being told. In order to display the content Word picks the "nearest
neighbor" matching the font metrics as best it can. It's usually pretty
close, but sometimes not. It's a bit trickier perhaps if the file isn't a
Word doc because of the encoding used in the file, but something is keeping
Word from recognizing the required font as TNR.

Unfortunately even this won't help as far as automating the conversion, and
the files do have to be opened in order to make the change. What *might* be
possible is programmatically opening the files in question & changing the
font specs a part of the process. Not being a programmer I can't even say
for sure what the likelyhood is but I'm pretty sure it will depend on how
many files are involved as to whether it's worth pursuing.

You'll probably get some additional replies from those more knowledgeable in
that regard than I so keep checking back.

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Regards |:)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

"waldronlaw" wrote in message
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Hi Bob -

Thanksfor yourreply. The documents were all created using TNR 12.5.
Sounds
like there is nothing that can be done universally - that I have to change
each document as it is opened.
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waldronlaw


"CyberTaz" wrote:

One thing that isn't clear from your post - What font was used in the WP
docs when they were created? That could make a difference as to how to
proceed.

One thing to try in the meanwhile: The next time you open a file that
hasn't
already had the fot updated to TNR go to the Office Button & click the
Word
Options button. Select Advanced in the left list & scroll to the "Show
document content" group. Click the Font Substitution button to see what
Shruti is being swapped in for, specify TNR to be used instead.
Unfortunately you can't do anything there to cause the font size(s) in
the
doc to be changed universally.

You might also consider using Find & Replace to replace the font as well
as
the size, but for anything that will do this "automatically" you'll need
to
have some code supplied.

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HTH |:)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

"waldronlaw" wrote in message
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When opening my old WordPerfect documents in Word, they always come up
in
the
wrong font : Shruti 12 point instead of Times New Roman 12.5. I have
made
the latter my default for new Word documents but that does not help
when I
open my old WordPerfect documents. I always have to manually change
the
document to the correct font. There must be a way to tell Word to
always
open up my old WordPerfect docs in the correct font.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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waldronlaw