[tech]

*on july 11 2006, around 90%(guessing) of my company work microsoft word
files, alot, on a dell computer, mysteriously and erroneously had all their
ok column checkmark symbols switched to the number 4. i didn't open open up
these many(hundreds possibly) files and do the insert symbol switch from
checkmark to 4, my company never uses 4 in this ok column. each of these
files-file pages contained many checkmarks in an ok column row box.
*my work company computer tech dept. suggested posting this because they
don't know what caused this and how to solve it, other than manually redoing
the insert symbol switch from 4 to checkmark in each file-file pages, which
would take way too much of my time and what is preventing this from happening
again? also, this corruption can only be seen on my computer, including
printouts, and not on anyone elses computer when their viewing or printing
out these files? i suggested reloading these files on my computer to my tech
dept., but the tech guy said that would be too much of a problem right
now-limited time etc. and would like to try to figure out this problem etc..
*is there one default symbol setting etc. when changed that would effect all
word files in one folder or on a computer-any explanations and answers would
be greatly appreciated-thanks very much-have a super week-godspeed ahead!!!

[Graham Mayor]

Did you download a security update on the 11th July? It is possible that
such an update affected the font you use.
Try rolling back Windows to before that date.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


tech wrote:
*on july 11 2006, around 90%(guessing) of my company work microsoft
word files, alot, on a dell computer, mysteriously and erroneously
had all their ok column checkmark symbols switched to the number 4. i
didn't open open up these many(hundreds possibly) files and do the
insert symbol switch from checkmark to 4, my company never uses 4 in
this ok column. each of these files-file pages contained many
checkmarks in an ok column row box. *my work company computer tech
dept. suggested posting this because they don't know what caused this
and how to solve it, other than manually redoing the insert symbol
switch from 4 to checkmark in each file-file pages, which would take
way too much of my time and what is preventing this from happening
again? also, this corruption can only be seen on my computer,
including printouts, and not on anyone elses computer when their
viewing or printing out these files? i suggested reloading these
files on my computer to my tech dept., but the tech guy said that
would be too much of a problem right now-limited time etc. and would
like to try to figure out this problem etc.. *is there one default
symbol setting etc. when changed that would effect all word files in
one folder or on a computer-any explanations and answers would be
greatly appreciated-thanks very much-have a super week-godspeed
ahead!!!