Re: Word needs the font named...

John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Merlin:

The "infection mechnism" is simply the "document" :-) It's calling for
fonts you don't have. The fonts are not stored in either the document or
Word -- but the various formatting commands that you have used in the
document specify the names of fonts. :-)

You can either install the fonts it wants, or change the fonts specified in
the document.

Look up "Font substitution" in the Word Help for instructions on how to
change the fonts in a document. You can do them all at once, or one-by-one.
You can substitute temporarily, or permanently. To make the change stick,
of course you have to save the document.

Hope this helps

That was fast, John, thank you!

I also learned another aspect of Word which I hadn't touched before -
thanks again!

However the document in question gives the result: no font substitution
is necessary...

Additionally opening the font substitution window triggered two more
font not available messages.

I have recently cleared all the font caches btw.

IIUC I will need to treat each document individually (let's see now,
23,471, 23,472, ...) to clear out any calls for these old fonts. mmm...

But these documents do not use these fonts. 99% of my documents don't
stray beyond Times and Helvetica. I had assumed (OK, I know!) that the
font calls were made by the template used to create the document (ie
Normal) which forms part of the document. Something along the lines of
"template defines all the fonts used / available for use on the
document, document based on this template, therefore check that fonts
are available."

So where are these references to unused fonts coming from if not from
the Normal template?

Keith
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