Invisible Font list in Word 2003

[Mary H]

We have Office 2003 with five licenses. Four of the installations work fine.
The fifth one, which is also on the newest computer, has problems. This
computer runs XP Home and is a VisionsBook Pro 3000 laptop with an Acer hard
drive.

In Word, when we use the font styles in the formatting bar many of them are
invisible. It is as if many of them have been typed in white. The space is
there for them and if I click on the empty space the font name appears in the
window and is usable. But until I actually click on it to use it I have no
clue as to which font I am choosing. I have 17 blank spots between Arial (not
the Arial family - the rest are all invisible) and Bookshelp Symbol 7.

The fonts are installed. They are visible in Publisher but not in Word (nor
in Power Point as I just discovered). They are visible in WordPad and in
WordPerfect.

I have tried changing the default printer to no avail. I have uninstalled an
reinstalled Office 2003 two or three times to fix thsi problem. We would like
to see the font names so we can choose whether or not to use them before we
click on them.

Thanks, Mary

 

[Terry Farrell]

You must install a printer driver and assign it as Windows Default before
Word knows which fonts are compatible with the printer. Without a printer
driver, Word just displays the basic system fonts.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Since you report that some fonts are displayed correctly, I suspect a
different problem than that described by Terry.

You do not mention it but I suspect you have the option to list font
names in their font checked "on".

View Toolbars Customize Other

Uncheck it and OK out. That solves the problem; however, now all font
names will be displayed in the same font.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User


: We have Office 2003 with five licenses. Four of the installations work
fine.
: The fifth one, which is also on the newest computer, has problems.
This
: computer runs XP Home and is a VisionsBook Pro 3000 laptop with an
Acer hard
: drive.
:
: In Word, when we use the font styles in the formatting bar many of
them are
: invisible. It is as if many of them have been typed in white. The
space is
: there for them and if I click on the empty space the font name appears
in the
: window and is usable. But until I actually click on it to use it I
have no
: clue as to which font I am choosing. I have 17 blank spots between
Arial (not
: the Arial family - the rest are all invisible) and Bookshelp Symbol 7.
:
: The fonts are installed. They are visible in Publisher but not in Word
(nor
: in Power Point as I just discovered). They are visible in WordPad and
in
: WordPerfect.
:
: I have tried changing the default printer to no avail. I have
uninstalled an
: reinstalled Office 2003 two or three times to fix thsi problem. We
would like
: to see the font names so we can choose whether or not to use them
before we
: click on them.
:
: Thanks, Mary