Word 2003 error opening document

[Jacques Schett]

We have a number of documents created by a former employee that now
show up with an error when we try to open them: "This document cannot
be edited because it contains a read-only embedded font."

When I look at the doucment in Word the ONLY font in there is Times
New Roman (times.ttf).

In the Tools / Options / Save the "Embed True Type Fonts" is checked.
I don't know WHY it's checked. She didn't do this on her own. Now
nobody can open and edit these documents (and there are hundreds,
allthough I haven't checked them all, there are 30 or so that I did
check that show up this way.)

I tried unchecking this but I cannot save the document.

I've searched the internet for this (and Microsoft's site) and got
nowhere (but fast.) Seems others have the same issue, too.

Is this unsolveable? Do I just have to copy and past and redo all
these documents? <that would suck...>

Is there a utility that can change this in a word .doc file?

Any help is appreciated!

-JS-

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

If these documents aren't proprietary, if you send me one I'll take a look.
Send to herb at herbtyson.com.

 

[Jacques Schett]

I would love to send you the document and we about to do so until I
got to my PC to do it. When I loaded the document in MY version of MS
WOrd (I have Office 2007 loaded) it told me the file had an embedded
font and gave me a button to press to un-embed the font! When i
clicked the button I was then allowed to edit and/or save the
document.

For those that do not have Office 2007, however. I'll be happy to
sendyou the file so we can fix this. There are numerous postings on
the internet about this issue "enabling itself" that is wreaking havoc
on many a office PC.

Look for the e-mail shortly.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I had opened the email and discovered the same thing (I always start with
Word 2007, since it seems to have some rather amazing curative powers not
possessed by previous versions) -- the Remove Restricted Fonts button.

I don't see a way to do this in Word 2003. Perhaps someone will pipe in with
a way to do this in VBA.

Barring that, I guess you're going to have to use Word 2007 to do the
honors...

Cheers,

 

[Jacques Schett]

My colleagues will appreciate this as I'm the only one that sprang for
Office 2007 This is going to make me a VERY BUSY person over the
next week. We literally have HUNDREDS of these .doc files that we
share over the wire with our other office.

Hopefully we'll find a VBA reason, no?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Charge them $5 per file to fix. <grin>