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Calibri font shows as question marks in squares
Hi,
I am using Word 2007 and my document contains text formatted in Calibri font. I have saved the file as 97 - 2003 compatible and have also embedded the TT font. When I sent to someone who uses Word 2003, the text formatted in Calibri displays as garbage - question mark in a square. The strange thing is - another file I sent displays the font correctly. Help! -- Thanks! Dee |
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Calibri font shows as question marks in squares
Since I have seen such characters before (question mark in a [dotted]
square) in an oddly corrupted document that was examined by some of the gurus at Microsoft, I forwarded your question to one of them. He replied: "The box with a question mark is just the symbol for a missing character. Someone decided that it was friendlier for the new fonts to have an update[d] symbol that included the question mark." That is, the question mark in a square is the equivalent of the empty square in earlier fonts: Word's "I can't print this" character. He adds: " I didn't realize before that the missing character symbol was actually in the font (just like all the other formatting symbols, it's makes sense but I didn't realize it)." I then asked him what it would mean if the entire document were full of these symbols, and he replied: "That the document was corrupted. I'd suggest Ctrl+A and then applying Arial and seeing what happens. If that works, then I'd really like a copy of the document. But I expect they'll continue to see boxes." So try applying Arial to the document. If that helps, please send the document to me and I'll forward it. If not, then the document is probably irrecoverable. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "dee" wrote in message ... Hi, I am using Word 2007 and my document contains text formatted in Calibri font. I have saved the file as 97 - 2003 compatible and have also embedded the TT font. When I sent to someone who uses Word 2003, the text formatted in Calibri displays as garbage - question mark in a square. The strange thing is - another file I sent displays the font correctly. Help! -- Thanks! Dee |
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Hi and thanks for the reply. I sent it to another computer with the fonts
embedded and it appears to work, except for in one place. All Calibri fonts display correctly, except for where Enter was hit to general a new paragraph at the end of a bulleted list. Of course, I can just change the font to Arial for this, as it doesn't display anything, but it's just curious. It also means I will have to be vigilant to really proof files. Thanks again. -- Thanks! Dee "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Since I have seen such characters before (question mark in a [dotted] square) in an oddly corrupted document that was examined by some of the gurus at Microsoft, I forwarded your question to one of them. He replied: "The box with a question mark is just the symbol for a missing character. Someone decided that it was friendlier for the new fonts to have an update[d] symbol that included the question mark." That is, the question mark in a square is the equivalent of the empty square in earlier fonts: Word's "I can't print this" character. He adds: " I didn't realize before that the missing character symbol was actually in the font (just like all the other formatting symbols, it's makes sense but I didn't realize it)." I then asked him what it would mean if the entire document were full of these symbols, and he replied: "That the document was corrupted. I'd suggest Ctrl+A and then applying Arial and seeing what happens. If that works, then I'd really like a copy of the document. But I expect they'll continue to see boxes." So try applying Arial to the document. If that helps, please send the document to me and I'll forward it. If not, then the document is probably irrecoverable. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "dee" wrote in message ... Hi, I am using Word 2007 and my document contains text formatted in Calibri font. I have saved the file as 97 - 2003 compatible and have also embedded the TT font. When I sent to someone who uses Word 2003, the text formatted in Calibri displays as garbage - question mark in a square. The strange thing is - another file I sent displays the font correctly. Help! -- Thanks! Dee |
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Calibri font shows as question marks in squares
Well, that's even curiouser, but I'm glad you've found a workaround.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "dee" wrote in message ... Hi and thanks for the reply. I sent it to another computer with the fonts embedded and it appears to work, except for in one place. All Calibri fonts display correctly, except for where Enter was hit to general a new paragraph at the end of a bulleted list. Of course, I can just change the font to Arial for this, as it doesn't display anything, but it's just curious. It also means I will have to be vigilant to really proof files. Thanks again. -- Thanks! Dee "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Since I have seen such characters before (question mark in a [dotted] square) in an oddly corrupted document that was examined by some of the gurus at Microsoft, I forwarded your question to one of them. He replied: "The box with a question mark is just the symbol for a missing character. Someone decided that it was friendlier for the new fonts to have an update[d] symbol that included the question mark." That is, the question mark in a square is the equivalent of the empty square in earlier fonts: Word's "I can't print this" character. He adds: " I didn't realize before that the missing character symbol was actually in the font (just like all the other formatting symbols, it's makes sense but I didn't realize it)." I then asked him what it would mean if the entire document were full of these symbols, and he replied: "That the document was corrupted. I'd suggest Ctrl+A and then applying Arial and seeing what happens. If that works, then I'd really like a copy of the document. But I expect they'll continue to see boxes." So try applying Arial to the document. If that helps, please send the document to me and I'll forward it. If not, then the document is probably irrecoverable. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "dee" wrote in message ... Hi, I am using Word 2007 and my document contains text formatted in Calibri font. I have saved the file as 97 - 2003 compatible and have also embedded the TT font. When I sent to someone who uses Word 2003, the text formatted in Calibri displays as garbage - question mark in a square. The strange thing is - another file I sent displays the font correctly. Help! -- Thanks! Dee |
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Answer: Calibri font shows as question marks in squares
Hi Dee,
It sounds like the issue you're experiencing is related to font compatibility between different versions of Microsoft Word. Here are a few steps you can try to resolve the issue:
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