[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Vanessa wrote:
Hi Robert

Thank you for your response.

Microsoft didn't even attempt to work through the problem with me (of
course, without charging me for their time). That's why I decided to come to
this discussion group.

I have since asked a colleague to open the same excel file on her machine,
copy and paste as EMF into a fresh word doc and then print the document to
see if she was experiencing the same problem and, as expected, her Arial font
was fine. So now I know it's my machine, not the file.

Even on screen, her Arial font looked ok in the picture in MS Word, whereas
mine looks distorted (random letters flushed against one another) once the
picture is imported into Word. So there seems to be something going on in my
machine with the font from copying the chart in excel to pasting as an EMF in
word.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my fonts need cleaning up. I recently
installed a pile of fonts and noticed that after I did this, they were
playing up in my adobe suite of programs (suggestions from newsgroups as to
the reason for my error messages was due to corrupted fonts).

OK, I'd try to upgrade the graphics driver on your system. Single point
of failure (the driver) seems more likely than multiple (all/most font
files).

HTH, and good luck!
Robert
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