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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! -- waldronlaw |
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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. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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! -- waldronlaw |
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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. -- 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. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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! -- waldronlaw |
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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. -- Regards |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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! -- waldronlaw |
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Sorry to say, I have completely lost track of the details of how the various
file format converters work. For example, the WP 5.5 converter used to (perhaps still does) do the conversion in two steps. WP to RTF, RTF to DOC. And changes could occur in font mapping at each step. There could be differences depending on the printer driver selected. My suggestion in the present case would be, in agreement with CyberTaz, to try the Font Substitution option in Word. Elect to make the substitution permanent. Then, the election should be written back and every document converted should now automatically have the same choice applied without further intervention. Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 PS In some cases, you can get better mapping if you use WP to save the file as DOC, Word 97.I know that means you still need WP installed and it is tedious to open and save every old file. And other details of the conversion might not be as good. table formatting, for example. T "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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. -- HTH |:) Bob Jones Office:Mac MVP "waldronlaw" wrote in message ... 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! -- waldronlaw |
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