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Saving a document with Symbol Font
I have the following scenario. I create a document and type the following
sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." I then highlight the sentence and change the font to Symbol (Wingdings and Webdings show the same behavior). I then save the document as a .docx file. I close Word. I then reopen the document and the text looks the same as it did when I saved it. I then highlight the text and change the font back to Calibiri, but instead of getting my original sentence, I get a whole long block of symbols. I can copy and paste this sentence into Wordpad (from the reopened word document) and then change the font and the original sentence comes out. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround? I am thinking it has something to do with encoding, but I don't know what. The reason I am asking this is because I have another font on my machine (a barcode font) that behaves the same way and I figure if we can solve the problem for Symbol or Wingdings, then I can solve it for the barcode font. |
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Saving a document with Symbol Font
See WD2002: Symbol Characters Are Changed to Box Characters at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290978 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Negative0" wrote in message ... I have the following scenario. I create a document and type the following sentence: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." I then highlight the sentence and change the font to Symbol (Wingdings and Webdings show the same behavior). I then save the document as a .docx file. I close Word. I then reopen the document and the text looks the same as it did when I saved it. I then highlight the text and change the font back to Calibiri, but instead of getting my original sentence, I get a whole long block of symbols. I can copy and paste this sentence into Wordpad (from the reopened word document) and then change the font and the original sentence comes out. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround? I am thinking it has something to do with encoding, but I don't know what. The reason I am asking this is because I have another font on my machine (a barcode font) that behaves the same way and I figure if we can solve the problem for Symbol or Wingdings, then I can solve it for the barcode font. |
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