Ward Oldham <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > You don't need to be running in Classic mode for fonts in your OS 9 System > Folder to be a potential problem. OS X loads those font resources, Classic > or not.
Yuck, I didn't know that OSX uses fonts taken from my OS9 partition, even when I am not running Classic. > ... a font menu which appears gibberish appears to be a clue. It doesn't > take but a moment to find out if your OS 9 fonts are a problem. What do you do that only takes a moment? > Other things to try would be to: > Delete specific Office X preferences > Replace Microsoft flavored fonts with updates they have on their web site > Make sure you have installed the Office X Service Release 1 Service Release 1 is installed. I would not trust myself to figure out which prefs to delete - they aren't as recognizable as in OS9. I will look for MS font updates. > Somewhere I vaguely recall reading about other user's inability to select > from their font menu the font they were intending to select. Maybe this > will ring a bell with someone. Yes, selecting one font applies a font that is several fonts away on the list. So I count how many fonts the list is "off", and use that as "windage" in aiming at the font I want. So I can select the font I want if I select the right other font. I think the fonts that have turned to Chinese are jumped over in the list; they occupy a line in the display, but are not counted. Allan Atherton The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
