Word document that isn't what it seems 1

[Gareth1978]

I have been forwarded a word document by user which they have received from someone else. The font says it is Times New Roman but it's wingdings or Symbol. Selecting the text and changing the font just changes all the highlighted text for unicode type stuff (boxes).

Does anyone have any ideas on making this document readable or should I just ask the user to ask the sender to resend....

thanks in anticipation

 

[VirtualTrainer]

Hmmm. It is possible that the font they used is coming up garbled because you do not have that font on your PC. I've never had that happen to me, but I know that when you use special fonts in PowerPoint and try to use the presentation on a PC that does not have that font, it doesn't display as you intended. SO.. with that in mind.. the fix for PowerPoint is to embed the fonts in the file when you save it. Here is what I would try:

Have the user save the file using "Save as". In the Save as dialog box, there should be a button for "Tools". Under the Tools button they should choose General Options. Then, check the box for "Embed TrueType fonts", save, and resend the file to you.

If that does not work.. I have no clue

Karyn

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[tav1035]

Gareth1978
Copy and paste it into notepad, it should strip all the un-necessary formatting, making it readable.
tav

 

[Gareth1978]

Thanks for the advice. I tried what Karyn suggested but it didn't work. I did as Tav suggested (quite why I didn't think to do this before I don't know - must be the heat or something) and that worked fine.

Thanks both.

Gareth

 

[tav1035]

Gareth1978,
I know how it is, the same thing happened to me and it took me a while to figure it out. It's too simple.
tav

 

[VirtualTrainer]

Cool... now I know what to do if this happens. Thanks, tav!

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[tav1035]

VirtualTrainer,
Not a problem, now you can amaze people with this trick.
Please, I'm begging you to mark this as helpful... hehe
tav

 

[tav1035]

The last post isn't what it seems
Another trick with this format stripping.
It is possible to change font color to 'white' so you can't see it against a white background. Copy and paste my last post into notepad. In html, you can read it as you copy it, but that isn't the case in msWord. Try changing text in word to white, then copy and paste it to notepad to strip the formatting off.
tav

 

[VirtualTrainer]

Oooo.. you get a star.

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