How do I find where a particular font is used in a Publisher docum

[Colin]

Using Publisher 2003, the document is a small book consisting of many text,
image and caption boxes. The document shows that there are four diffrent
fonts being used. It is the intention that only be so. How do I locate the
other three fonts and change whatever is using them to the one 'master' font?

Thank you

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

By looking for it. Which fonts does the document use and which one are you
looking for?

 

[Terje Martinsen]

JoAnn!

Colins question is quite interesting.
And as much as your answer is correct, it is in many cases impossible to
follow.
Lets say you have a 60 page documents with 300+ textframes (yes, often do
that in magazines).
Somewhere in that document you have a font (imported?) that does not distill
correctly because of copyright notice.

Then how do you find that exact place where that font is used? It may just
be one word in a large article.

It would be nice to have some procedure (find or find/replace) to go right
to that spot.

Could this be done in VBA?

Terje

By looking for it. Which fonts does the document use and which one are you
looking for?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Using Publisher 2003, the document is a small book consisting of many
text,
image and caption boxes. The document shows that there are four diffrent
fonts being used. It is the intention that only be so. How do I locate
the
other three fonts and change whatever is using them to the one 'master'
font?

Thank you

 

[Colin]

Terje

Thank you for your reply and interest in the query. Your example is exactly
right. The book is currently 84 pages and contains thousands of words in
several sections, some in linked text frames some not. There are also
hundreds on photos all with captions.

The idea that one has to search this lot for a small number of font changes
is plainly ridiculous and I do hope someone has a great idea on how to solve
this dilema. I did notice the Word has an option within its Find function
(More, Format, Font) that allows to search for one or more fonts. Seems a bit
of any oversight not to include such an option in Publisher given the
similarity in the two programs.

Colin

 

[Ed Bennett]

Could this be done in VBA?

Yes.

 

[Terje Martinsen]

Fine!
Except I do'nt do VBA very well (or not at all?).
What would it take to convince some of you gurus to do it.

This is a serious flaw in Publisher.
I also know this has been asked before in this newgroup.

BR Terje

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

This is a great question!

I recently had a bad font problem and it partially still exists...because
somewhere in a 20 page document I must have ONE character still in the bad
font. It would be nice to be able to find that character easily so I can
change it to the new non-corrupt font I'm using and stop the font warning I
get when I open the file in Pub.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Actually I now believe this is a font that Pub has embedded but is not
installed on this new machine...problem is how to tell pub not to try to
embed the missing font...I'm not using it anywhere anyway.

This is a great question!

I recently had a bad font problem and it partially still exists...because
somewhere in a 20 page document I must have ONE character still in the bad
font. It would be nice to be able to find that character easily so I can
change it to the new non-corrupt font I'm using and stop the font warning
I get when I open the file in Pub.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you get the message about a font(s) when you open the file? There is a dialog that
gives you options.

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

Actually I now believe this is a font that Pub has embedded but is not installed on
this new machine...problem is how to tell pub not to try to embed the missing
font...I'm not using it anywhere anyway.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Yep, but no option to delete or not load (grayed out)...it just tells me
AvantGarde is not available. I know it isnt'. I had found the offending
AvantGarde text and changed it to Garamond and as far as I can see now there
is no AvantGarde being used in the pub., yet Pub is still complaining about
it.

Was AvantGarde a Pub font?

I may just have to copy/paste into a new pub file...but issues like this
usually send me on a quest to find out why it happens in the first place

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

copy/paste into new pub doesn't help the unavailable font error follows.
a side issue is copy/paste changes the color scheme...that seems weird too

 

[Mary Sauer]

Is it a long document? Sometimes turning a publication into a web page, preview and
then looking at the source code... You may have changed the text, over the years I
have found Publisher considers a space part of the font. It is hard to find that
space... Avantgarde is the default Corel font. As far as I can ascertain it was
never bundled with a Microsoft product.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

This one is not very long, but I can't manually find it...I'll try the
webpage trick.

You're right...it may be a space with the AvantGarde attribute...just can
find the damn thing.

Yah..Corel I had Corel 9 on the other machine that this was originally
created on so I musta used the Corel font.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

the html trick was great...I found several references to AvantGarde on
underlying styles for bg text boxes...changed them all to Garamond. This was
weird because the text in those boxes was displaying Garamond, but not when
I cut the text...the blank text box was displaying AvantGarde as the default
text font...Great!...at least I thought so for a few minutes.

Saved file, opened file again...still complains that AvantGarde is
unavailable.