changing font problem in word 2008

[PawCzu]

Hello,

I have recently bought office and I have strange problem in word 2008
on Leopard. When I want to change font to some other than Times New
Roman, it appears in drop down for a moment and then reset to Times
New Roman again. When I change style to some paragraph which has other
font than Times New Roman, then click inside this paragraph and want
to type, font is automatiacally changed to Times New Roman.

Anyone knows what could that be?

Rgrds,
Paul

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Paul,

Are you by chance using a non-US keyboard layout? What language are you
typing in? There are all sorts of issues with non-US keyboard layouts,
and--making a guess with very little evidence here--you might have run
into one.

Vague memory that it might help to go to Word | Preferences | Edit, and
UNCHECK "match font to keyboard".

 

[PawCzu]

Hi Daiya,

I am using Polish keyboard layout (to be more strict - polish pro) and
I am typing in polish language. It works fine with other apps. I tried
to uncheck 'match font to keyboard' but it didn't change anything :
( Do you know maybe some online knowlage base about this issue?

Paul

 

[PawCzu]

I tried again and unchecking this option worked for me. Thanks for
your tip. Unfortunatelly I discovered that many basic fonts which I
usually use (like Garamond, Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma etc...) do not
accept polish letters (word switch to another font when I am trying to
type something in polish) while others do (like Arial, Times). I am
confused because previous versions doesn't have such a problem.

Paul

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad that worked. My knowledge was pretty much exhausted by that
tip--with luck, someone else will chime in on why you are having
problems using the same fonts you used to use to type Polish characters.

The KB for Office 2008 is not yet up to speed, in general--I don't know
of documentation on this issue.

Did you need to relaunch, or create a new document, to get unchecking
the preference to work?

 

[John McGhie]

The way Unicode works, it searches for the character you request "outwards"
from the current font, using PANOSE font matching.

The PANOSE encoding on a font (if it is present) gives a fairly accurate
picture of its appearance: Unicode is looking for the font next closest in
appearance to the one you are using. Some fonts don't have PANOSE
information, and they don't participate.

So Word must switch fonts to bring in missing characters.

The BUG is that it does not remember what you were using and switch BACK.

The Microsoft-supplied fonts that came with Office 2008 are generally much
larger fonts: in many cases they are the same fonts supplied in PC Office
and contain 1,500 glyphs or more. Arial Unicode MS has about 65,000.

Older Mac fonts may contain only the Mac International character set, and so
may have as few as 280 or 512 glyphs. Many users are purchasing new Unicode
versions of favourite fonts.

Hope this helps

I tried again and unchecking this option worked for me. Thanks for
your tip. Unfortunatelly I discovered that many basic fonts which I
usually use (like Garamond, Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma etc...) do not
accept polish letters (word switch to another font when I am trying to
type something in polish) while others do (like Arial, Times). I am
confused because previous versions doesn't have such a problem.

Paul

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50

 

[s.dlugolinsky]

I'm using Slovak keyboard layout and I also had problems when switching from US keyboard layout. Uncheking the 'Match font with keyboard' option in Word -> Preferences... -> Edit has fixed it. Thanks!