Office Lies about needing Tehoma font?

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Chris Shearer Cooper

My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of its
fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting repairs!).
Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts folder, didn't have
to re-install Windows) except that when I run Word 2000, it tells me "The
Tahoma font is not present. To restore it, click Detect and Repair on the
Help Menu."

If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks for
the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run Word, the same
message occurs.

The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even appears
in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in Word to be Tahoma
font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans serif" font, pretty clean
lines, nothing fancy).

So I'm thinking that either ...
1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs Tahoma to
throw me off the trail
or
2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Try reinstalling your printer driver.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Chris Shearer Cooper asked:

| My (Windows XP) computer freaked out today, it somehow "lost" all of
| its fonts except WingDings (and that makes for some interesting
| repairs!). Anyway, it's all functional again now (I fixed the Fonts
| folder, didn't have to re-install Windows) except that when I run
| Word 2000, it tells me "The Tahoma font is not present. To restore
| it, click Detect and Repair on the Help Menu."
|
| If I do Detect and Repair, it chews on my hard disk for a while, asks
| for the CD, chews some more, and then says it's done. When I run
| Word, the same message occurs.
|
| The Tahoma font is happily in my c:\Windows\Fonts folder, and even
| appears in the font selection box in Word, and when I set text in
| Word to be Tahoma font it looks good (assuming Tahoma is a "sans
| serif" font, pretty clean lines, nothing fancy).
|
| So I'm thinking that either ...
| 1) Word actually needs something else, and is telling me it needs
| Tahoma to throw me off the trail
| or
| 2) What I have that claims to be the Tahoma font, really isn't.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks!
| Chris
 

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