Document view is in Wingdings

[lmbaffled]

A perfectly normal Word document opened, revised and re-saved yesterday
opened this morning with all wingding characters showing on the screen.
Print Preview shows wingdings, but when the document is printed it looks
normal with Times New Roman font. Clicking on the "review" button allows us
to see it with correct font and make changes.

The document was originally emailed to us, but has been modified and saved
several times without problems. It only looks this way on one computer; on
other computers the view is normal font. And only a few Word files open
showing wingding characters on this one computer; other documents open just
fine.

Any idea why this is happening?

 

[Gingerbreadman]

It sounds like the printer is using it's internal fonts as the substitute for
the missing Truetype font on the PC. Have you tried changing the font to
something else on the trouble PC to see what happens?

You could also open your doc. go into Tools>Option>Save and select Embed
Truetype Fonts, then resave the file. Do this on a machine which opens and
prints the file correctly, not the problem PC.

Hopefully when you then open the file on the problem PC the file should
display correctly.

 

[lmbaffled]

Amazingly, the same file unchanged (and all other files that were affected
yesterday) are now opening and displaying correctly. The PC was not turned
off since yesterday and nothing else was changed. I wouldn't believe it if I
hadn't seen it. Embed true type fonts is off on the problem PC.

Is it possible printing a file in another program changes a default printer
font somehow which would cause the word file opened after that to display
incorrectly, and then be "re-set" when a different program prints another
file? It's very weird...