It sounds as though you have deleted (or corrupted a Wndows system font).
Right click the desktop and check properties appearance and/or themes and
see what you have configured there. This is, however, a Windows issue and
not a Word issue. You need to explore this further in a Windows group.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Clara wrote:
This is some of my problem, too! One day the pc was fine ... the next
day when booting up, the fonts were all different in a small italic
font. The desktop and everywhere were affected ... the boxes in front
of all things that you click on are gone (in email and everywhere) ;
the click buttons for 'close', 'maximize', and 'minimize' in the
upper right hand corner have 'p', '2'or '1', and '0' respectively on
the top of these buttons; and down on any page that has blocks that
contain choices, the number '6' is sitting on the right hand corner
of the tool bars!
First, somewhere I set something at 'large'. It said I had a
handicap, but at least I could read the text. Another day, I somehow
by accident changed the size of the icons in the bottom toolbar tray
... the fonts are humongous! Today, I figured I had to remove
Microsoft Works Suite 2001 (Microsoft Works
6.0 and Microsoft Word 2000 SR-1) and re-install it. Well, I still
got the same mess. Someone told me to reset my display settings to
800x480. Unfortunately, it was already set at those pixels.
Now, if anyone knows what my problem is (besides having several screws
loose), you have to guide me step by step in very basic terms. I have
no idea about a nat-ural view and a draft font, but I sure would like
to see my ole computer back to looking normal again. I have Windows
Me with Word 2000.
Make sure you're not using "Draft font" in Normal view.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"DSL-Dave" wrote in message
...
I am using Word 97 under Win98se, and I just had a problem where I
can no longer change fonts, font sizes or bold/italic/underline.
I initially received an error message that normal.dot was corrupt,
and Word could not repair it.
I renamed normal.dot to normal-1.dot, but that didn't help.
I tried changing the default font to Tahoma and saving it to the
template, but that didn't work either.
I tried searching for the original normal.dot template on my
install disk, but couldn't find it.
I tried searching the Knowledge Base, but couldn't find a solution
there, either!
Can someone help me restore Word (without having to re-install!)?
Thanks,
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Dave