Word 2004 - cannot change typing font

[Pawe³ Solarski]

Hi,

I've got really strange situation - I cannot change typing font to any other
than Times NR.

I've tried to change it changing styles, default fonts settings, changing
normal template... I'm able to change _typed_ fonts (by selecting and
changing fonts fragment of text), but every time I'm going to start type -
font is automatically and immediately changed to Times NR (even I'd disabled
it in Font Book).

What is interesting - the same situation I've got with language - I cannot
change language in other way than after typing.

I'm running Word 2004 for Mac (with 11.3.5 update) on 10.4.9.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello -

The first thing I'd suggest is that you run Disk Utility - Repair Disk
Permissions, especially if you've recently updated the OS or used the latest
Security Update from Apple. It may not resolve the problem but it can't hurt
anything & rules out some possibilities.

If that in itelf doesn't prove to be the fix, take a look at the
troubleshooting steps here:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/TroubleshootingIndex.html

You may be the victim of a corrupt Preferences file or perhaps Normal has
gotten flaky for some reason. I don't think it's a font issue per se.

Another thought - Have you installed any software recently that adds or
modifies OS or other software functionality? This sounds like the type of
thing that can be caused by "helper" apps, add-ins & haxies... possibly even
a virus protection program.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

A different path than CyberTaz--what language are you using, and can you
say more about the problems you are having with language?

Sometimes Word 2004 will force the use of TNR for languages that require
characters beyond the Latin basic 26, because I think TNR is the font
with the biggest selection of Unicode characters in MacWord 2004. But
there's not enough information to tell whether that might be
happening--other than your name and email, come to think of it. And
Thunderbird is showing your name with a Cross at the end, no L.

Searching this group will turn up a few other reports of this--I'm not
very good with language and don't recall how they worked out.