Word 2004 - font problem

[Philippe]

Hi,
I have some problems with fonts in word 2004. When I open documents that
I wrote in Word X in Geneva, the font now looks totally different. The letters
seem a bit further apart from each other, and bold does not look bold at all.
when I open the same document in word X, it shows up as usual.
What is the problem here, something in the settings that I can change? or is
it an early bug...
Thanks for the reply,
Phil

 

[Philippe]

ok, it has something to do with the font substitution. although my doc does
not contain Times Roman, when I change the font substitution from times
roman to geneva, it looks better. Is there a way to switch off font
substitution, as it is giving me lots of problems?
thanks,
Phil

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Philippe:

Font substitution will not take place if you actually have the font required
installed.

Font substitution is not something that is "ON", it's something that you
"do". If you don't do it, it won't operate.

However, when you installed Word 2004, your Normal Template may have been
replaced. If it was, your default font would have gone back to Times New
Roman (the hard-coded default).

Close ALL other documents, Edit your Normal template, and set the Font of
the Default paragraph (the only one in the document) to Geneva. You also
need to use Format>Style and change the font of the Normal Style to Geneva.

OK your way out, Save Normal, and close Word (to make sure your Save
"sticks" -- Normal is held resident in memory until you close Word.

That should do it.

Cheers

ok, it has something to do with the font substitution. although my doc does
not contain Times Roman, when I change the font substitution from times
roman to geneva, it looks better. Is there a way to switch off font
substitution, as it is giving me lots of problems?
thanks,
Phil

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Phil:

Sure: Times, Times New Roman and Geneva will look very different. Geneva
is a heavier weight than times, which is heavier than TNR.

Depending on your View setting, Word may not actually be using the font of
the text for display. To improve speed and reduce power consumption Word
uses only two fonts to draw the 'Normal' display: a sans-serif and a serif.
It subtly alters one or the other to get something like the font underneath.
This saves a lot of processor power

In Page Layout Display, Word is using the actual fonts in the text, and in
Print Preview, it's also using the metrics from the printer driver. This
consumes a lot more processor cycles and gets your document progressively
closer to how it's going to print.

In Word 2004, all sorts of changes have been made to use more of the new
display tools provided by the operating system. This does produce a change
in appearance.

When you update styles in Normal Template, this affects only new documents:
you do not change the styles in any existing document. You would need to
use the Organiser to copy the styles from the changed template to an
existing document, or use the Tools>Templates and Add-ins>Automatically
update styles button. Be careful with this if you have numbering in the
document: it resets list numbering.

Hope this helps

john,
thank you very much for your reply, I managed to change the style Normal
for good. but my real problem is that my docs generated in word X look
differnet in word 2004, the font looks differnet. geneva does not look like
geneva, and bold does not look bold. I dont understand it myself, but when i
do a compatibility check on the document it sais font substitution has
occured, and times roman has been substituted to times (although I dont
have times roman characters in my document, as far as I know). when I
change that font subsitution for times roman from times to geneva, all of a
sudden the doc looks good. Can you explain to me what's going on?
thank you very much,
Phil

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