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SimSun, MS Mincho, Chinese/Japanese characters?
Microsoft Word 2003
I have a client who brought a technical document to me that was acting "strangely." It is over 500 pages, very little use of styles and lots of direct formatting. He doesn't know who wrote the original. He opened the original (Normal was Times 12, all other styles looked OK), made some editing changes, and then saved the file. However, when he opened the document the next time, many of the styles were changed. Normal was now a font with a name that appears to be in Chinese or Japanese characters. The heading styles are now zapfdingbats. Sections that used to be code examples in Courier are now formatted with Symbol. I'm at a total loss of what has happened. I don't know if the document was first written in Chinese or Japanese -- which accounts for the oddly named font. I thought at first I could just reset Normal and things would be OK -- but that just resulted in other odd things happening -- like "blank rectangles" now showing up for some characters. Detect language automatically is not checked. Styles are not selected to be udpated automatically. Under Font Substitution, there is Geneva - Arial MS Mincho - Arial Unicode MS Sim Sun - Arial Unicode MS the odd named font - Aria Unicode MS Any ideas on what has happened to this document? He was able to revert to another version that doesn't exhibit this strange behaviour. Is there anything we can do to keep this from happening again? Thanks, Rita rhewell |
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