Font Forum

Well, I looked again into modifiying the style under styles and formatting and noticed that "add to template" was unchecked, so I checked it, and bingo, all my symbols are visible. :D I don't know how this happened nor did I know that such a little thing could cause such a big problem. I g...

Ok. I've been replying as soon as I can try out the solution.

When you say you never rec'd an email from me--am I supposed to email you directly for this problem?

I do appreciate your help.

Thank you. I thought for sure that would do it, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I went back to the Font Substitution under Tools and it now says that the document fonts that are missing are: Courier to be sub'd by Courier New Helvetica tbsb default MonoSorts tbsb Symbol MS Song tbsb Arial U...

Thanks very much. I did this. It seems the missing font is Arial unicode MS. But i'm supposed to have this with XP. I'm starting to think the problem is a disconnect between author's styles and mine. I cleared the styles in normal except for the defaults and inserted his file--still can't see the ch...

thanks! i sent you an email with this, but wanted it to be avail to anyone else. wasn't sure what i was doing there... so again, I can see the characters when i change the font, to say, bold. But I need to find out why this is. The text is in a style called normal + arial. the normal seems to have t...

Hi, I received an electronic Word 2003 file from a customer for editing. I noticed that I couldn't see some characters (alpha symbol, single and double quotes, and some dashes). The customer who sent me the document can see them, and other people who looked at the file can see them, and I can even s...