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    WScreser
    AskWoody Lounger
    April 2, 2001 at 7:59 pm #354600

    New documents, existing documents and/or forms stored on our network are altered when opened in Word 2000. Part of the document’s text is changed to garbage or Webdings or other strange fonts and symbols. This does not happen on every computer. It does not effect the entire document, only a portion. Looking for ideas….We checked the language setting but that doesn’t seem to help. Carol

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    • Charles Kenyon
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 3, 2001 at 4:01 pm #521404

      On these computers, start up Word and click on the File Open button. Take a look at “files of type” and make sure that it is set to Word files rather than “Recover text from files of any type” or something similar.

      This setting is “sticky” in that if you change the setting to open one document, it remains that way for future documents until you change it back. The “Recover text” option gives results like those you have described.

      Hope this helps.

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    • WScreser
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 3, 2001 at 5:14 pm #521412

      We just upgraded from Office 97 to Office 2000. Should I not assume that the fonts didn’t change that much. Doesn’t word look for the closest match in fonts loaded on the computer. Why would that change a new document and have oddball fonts appear in a new document? Sooooo many questions. Carol

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    • WScreser
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 3, 2001 at 6:37 pm #521418

      We switched from NT 4 to Windows 2K

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