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Many thanks to both of you Bob and Suzanne. I do have the font installed but
there must be something missing so I'll look into that and the print driver.
In the meantime, I was able to substitute Courier New.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi songinthedark,

To add to Suzanne's reply, if you have the document open in Word 2003 you can use
Tools=Option=Compatibility=[Font Substitution]
to see what font Windows is using as a substitute for a font that may not be available.

If 'squished' is referring to vertical spacing of lines, check also that you are formatting the line height as single, rather than a
specific point size, as that can be an issue if the font is substituted when it's not available in the document.

Is the Letter Gothic font you're using a Truetype font? The original was designed for IBM around 50 years ago and there are a
number of variations and derivations of it. Windows is 'aware' of Letter gothic being a monospaced font and a common substitution
if it's missing would be Courier New which could take up less space and look 'smaller' but should keep the same overall 'shape' for
the data.

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"songinthedark" wrote in message
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The problem is on screen and in pdf rendition.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*