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by: rfultonjr August 16, 2005 6:57 AM PDT

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Bold + Italic Font Causing Weird Print & Display Issues

by rfultonjr - 8/16/05 6:57 AM

I have Office 2002 Professional installed on my (new) Compaq Presario. Within the last two weeks, when I am in Word, Excel or Powerpoint and I try to use bold and italicized "Times New Roman" font (font size not an issue), the text disappears. In the case of Excel, not only does the text disappear, but the row height increases astronomically.

I can use Times New Roman font with just bold, just italicized, or underlined with either of the other two. It only screws up when bold and italic are both selected. No other fonts display this strange habit. It happens in loder files, as well as ones I have created in the last two weeks. Unfortunately, I am wedded to TNR font.

I have tried the "detect and repair" function. What are my options short of purchasing Office 2003? Thanks for any help you can render.


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Re: corrupted font

by Kees Bakker Moderator - 8/16/05 7:37 AM

In Reply to: Bold + Italic Font Causing Weird Print & Display Issues by rfultonjr

It seems the font file for "Times New Roman Bold Italic" is corrupted. That has nothing to do with MS Office, so you can save that expense; just try it in Wordpad (part of Windows, not of MS Office) to check.

Then go into c:\windows\fonts folder, locate the 4 variants of Times New Roman, and have a look at them by doubleclicking.

If my suspicion is right, all you have to do is restore that font file from your Windows CD. Post for help with that, if necessary.

Hope this helps.


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Replacing corrupted font

by El Alquimista - 8/16/05 8:15 AM

In Reply to: Re: corrupted font by Kees Bakker Moderator

Kees has the answer. He got his post in while I was preparing mine.

The instructions are here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314960

If Windows Setup does not recognize it as a changed file and automatically replace it, you might force it by deleting that font and then running Setup again; as it would then be missing, it should be reinstalled.

Hope this helps

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Replacing A Corrupted Font

by rfultonjr - 8/16/05 10:00 AM

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THanks to both of you. This worked like a charm.


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(NT) (NT) Glad we could help.

by Kees Bakker Moderator - 8/16/05 11:21 AM

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