> I have been asked not to post to this newsgroup any more. Someone calling
> > himself "Gordon Bentley-Mix" presumably considers himself more
> qualified to speak on questions concerning fonts. Note, however, that he
> has given wrong advice (and apologized) three times in less than a week.
Which differentiates Gordon Bentley-Mix from you Peter. You have given
wrong or questionable advice on occasion and never apologized (to my
knowledge).
I know that you have heard this before. In all public confrontations one
has to make the choice to continue the offensive and counter-attack or
retreat. Both of which have there downsides. Perhaps Gordon will ignore
your baiting and not reengage you in this public forum. He is already the
clear victor in my view.
While personally I would second Gordon's motion, the fact remains that he or
I are no more the "Poster" police than you are the courtesy police. You do
seem to have a following. So, by all means post away as much as you want
to.
grammatim wrote:
> I have been asked not to post to this newsgroup any more. Someone
> calling himself "Gordon Bentley-Mix" presumably considers himself more
> qualified to speak on questions concerning fonts. Note, however, that
> he has given wrong advice (and apologized) three times in less than a
> week.
>
> However, invoking a "grandfather clause":
>
> If Lucida Handwriting was not installed in your old computer, then
> what you were seeing in your Word documents there was whatever Word
> thought was the closest match, and you can find out what that was by
> looking at the "Font Substitutions" panel. (I can't tell you exactly
> where it was in 2003; in 2007, it's under the Word Options at the
> bottom of the Office Button panel. Word Options > Advanced > just
> above the heading "Display.")
>
> The Lucida family of fonts is freeware, so if it's not installed, you
> should be able to download it easily -- just google, say, lucida font
> download.
>
> Presumably it appears in your document because once, long ago, you
> received the document from someone else who had used the font.
>
> On Feb 5, 11:13 am, BBG <B...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Hopefully, I am getting closer. I checked the heading that seems to
>> be the problem. On both on and new it is using "Lucida Handwriting
>> 14". On the 2003 computer, itv is not listed under control
>> panel->Fonts. However, it is listed on the new computer under
>> control panel-> fonts. Is there another place on the old computer
>> that would have it, or do you think it is not really using this font
>> on the new computer (as it looks like bar coade)
>>
>>
>>
>> "grammatim" wrote:
>>> First things first. Does the new computer have all the fonts that
>>> the old computer did?
>>
>>> If it doesn't, there's no way to get the styles to match.
>>
>>> The styles are in your old template(s). Just move it/them to the new
>>> machine. (XP or Vista?)
>>
>>> On Jan 23, 7:25 pm, BBG <B...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>> It is a new computer with 2007. Is there a way to transfer the
>>>> style definitions? The funny thing is, we have had about 8
>>>> computers here over the past 4 years running Word 2003 and we have
>>>> never had any issues with these files between the computers.
>>
>>>> "grammatim" wrote:
>>>>> The style definitions are specific to each document. If you're on
>>>>> the same computer, presumably you still have all the same fonts
>>>>> installed (plus the new fonts starting with C that came with
>>>>> 2007)?
>>
>>>>> BTW if that's a real example, I'm surprised that a handwriting
>>>>> font _has_ an italic variant; that could be a source of a problem.
>>
>>>>> On Jan 23, 10:11 am, BBG <B...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>>> When I open a document in 2007 that I created in 2003, all of my
>>>>>> headings are wrong. As an example, Heading 6 of 2003 was "Lucida
>>>>>> Handwriting, 16, Blue, italic" and in the new 2007 it is shows
>>>>>> up as a barcode. Can someone tell me the EASIEST way to have
>>>>>> them open correctly without going through every file and
>>>>>> changing one by one?--
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