Re: Word needs the font named...

Hi Keith:

OK, I think I have found it. mw_mac_msword.dot is an application produced
for Merriam Webster to enable you to look up words in a Word document. It
makes VBA and AppleScript calls to an application it expects to find on your
computer.

If that application is not present, anything could happen: the way it is
coded, if it hits an error, it just carries on.

It expects to find a toolbar in Word to which it wants to add a button.

re-naming this one will not be enough: drag it and all of its copies out of
your startup folders and onto your desktop. Then reboot :-)

See if that fixes it!

Cheers

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Keith:

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I did
find something there I didn't recognise:

mw_mac_msword.dot

I don't recognise it either, but I have a feeling I should :-) Please
send
me a copy: I would like to have a look inside it.

In the same zip file, please create a new documet, type a couple of
quick
brown foxes, put numbering on one paragraph, bullets on one paragraph,
and
heading one on one paragraph, and send that to me too.

I want to take a look inside the document structue and see if I can see
where those calls are coming from.

John

Thank you very much for tackling this!

I have just noticed one other peculiarity. Normally I start Word and
then start opening documents - this generates the request for Myriad and
the Capital fonts.

By mistake I just clicked on a Word document when Word was not open.
The Myriad request came up but not the Capital Fonts.


A little more information: under these conditions there were no Capital
requests until I started typing information into the print dialog box.
Immediately the requests popped up with the first character typed.

The thot plickens!

Keith




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