Upside down text

[ResidentAKJ]

I haven't managed to find this anywhere, but in word with a document
that I've had for a while (PhD thesis that I'm desperately trying to
fix) every few minutes all the text in the document flips upside down
and I can't use it anymore.

Here's a photo

http://flickr.com/photos/21105426@N04/2245760952/

Any suggestions, I'm quite furious at MS for releasing such a bug-
ridden POS. I had to change from LaTeX because of the document
complexity last year (which took about a week) and can't change back
because my supervisor is word invested.

 

[ResidentAKJ]

OK, if you turn off ligatures this stops happening (so far). I still
think I'm annoyed that ligatures doesn't work in word though?
Textedit manages to do it properly...

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Utter and complete mystery--not at all a familiar problem.

What OS version? PPC or Intel?

Diagnostic tricks to help locate the cause of the problem:

1) Log out of your user account, then hold down shift while logging back
in. If the problem disappears, it is probably due to some conflict with
the login items/utilities in your user account.

2) create a new user account in OS X and test in that one, to narrow
down the potential causes.

 

[Mac Word Helper]

ResidentAKJ,

This is a new one - and very odd (although I'm sure that doesn't make it any more enjoyable). Can you specify exactly what font you're using that's doing this?

If you switch to another font that has ligatures, does the type still perform backflips?

Are you seeing the same behavior in OTHER documents that use that font?

Try this: copy a chunk of the text that's acting up and paste it into a new document. Does it continue flipping out there?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Fascinating! Ignore my other post--glad you found the cause.

Something Leopard did with ligatures conflicted with what Word does to
handle them, I think. MS and Apple are negotiating it.