Allen Browne said:If your subform is in Form view or Continuous view, open it in design view,
and set the FontName of the controls.
If it is in Datasheet view, go to:
Tools | Options | Datasheet
and set the Default Font.
Some recent versions of Access may not show any fonts in that menu option if
you have too many fonts installed. If that happens, either dump some fonts
and restart the computer, or use RegEdit to set the value under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[your version
number]\Access\Settings
The desired entries are:
Default Font Name = the name of the font you want
Default Font Size = the point size you want (e.g. 10)
--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
message
I have a form where all of the fields have the font set to Tahoma 8. When I
display it in form view, the font in some of the sub form fields changes
to
symbols.
Any ideas what could cause this?
The problem occurs on a work station that has a runtime version of the
database on it. I checked the number of fonts and should not be a problem.
It
appears that Windows XP Professional is substituting the font in the sub
form. I deleted the font that was showing up and it displayed a different
one.
Since it is a runtime version and I don't have Access installed on this
machine, I can't change the registry default as you suggested.
Is there a setting in Windows that controls font substitution?
Allen Browne said:If your subform is in Form view or Continuous view, open it in design
view,
and set the FontName of the controls.
If it is in Datasheet view, go to:
Tools | Options | Datasheet
and set the Default Font.
Some recent versions of Access may not show any fonts in that menu option
if
you have too many fonts installed. If that happens, either dump some
fonts
and restart the computer, or use RegEdit to set the value under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[your version
number]\Access\Settings
The desired entries are:
Default Font Name = the name of the font you want
Default Font Size = the point size you want (e.g. 10)
message
I have a form where all of the fields have the font set to Tahoma 8.
When I
display it in form view, the font in some of the sub form fields
changes
to
symbols.
Any ideas what could cause this?
Allen Browne said:Is it possible that you have developed using a font that is not on the
user's system? That issue won't occur for the basic Windows fonts such as MS
Sans Serif, Arial, Times New Roman, but if the font you used is not on the
user's system then it will substitute.
(BTW, you can name a font as part of the runtime, but IME this does not work
very well: it complains the font is already there if the user has to
reinstall.)
Windows does have a font substitution (e.g. in Win.ini for Win98), but I
doubt that's what is going on.
--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
message
The problem occurs on a work station that has a runtime version of the
database on it. I checked the number of fonts and should not be a problem.
It
appears that Windows XP Professional is substituting the font in the sub
form. I deleted the font that was showing up and it displayed a different
one.
Since it is a runtime version and I don't have Access installed on this
machine, I can't change the registry default as you suggested.
Is there a setting in Windows that controls font substitution?
Allen Browne said:If your subform is in Form view or Continuous view, open it in design
view,
and set the FontName of the controls.
If it is in Datasheet view, go to:
Tools | Options | Datasheet
and set the Default Font.
Some recent versions of Access may not show any fonts in that menu option
if
you have too many fonts installed. If that happens, either dump some
fonts
and restart the computer, or use RegEdit to set the value under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[your version
number]\Access\Settings
The desired entries are:
Default Font Name = the name of the font you want
Default Font Size = the point size you want (e.g. 10)
message
I have a form where all of the fields have the font set to Tahoma 8.
When I
display it in form view, the font in some of the sub form fields
changes
to
symbols.
Any ideas what could cause this?
The font we are using is Tahoma 8 point and it is already installed on the
machine. We had the same problem on another work station on the original
install with MS San Seriff. When we reformatted all of the forms to
Tahoma,
it worked.
The strange part about this is that the font works fine in the main form.
It
is only the sub form that is substituting.
Thanks for the help
Allen Browne said:Is it possible that you have developed using a font that is not on the
user's system? That issue won't occur for the basic Windows fonts such as
MS
Sans Serif, Arial, Times New Roman, but if the font you used is not on
the
user's system then it will substitute.
(BTW, you can name a font as part of the runtime, but IME this does not
work
very well: it complains the font is already there if the user has to
reinstall.)
Windows does have a font substitution (e.g. in Win.ini for Win98), but I
doubt that's what is going on.
message
The problem occurs on a work station that has a runtime version of the
database on it. I checked the number of fonts and should not be a
problem.
It
appears that Windows XP Professional is substituting the font in the
sub
form. I deleted the font that was showing up and it displayed a
different
one.
Since it is a runtime version and I don't have Access installed on this
machine, I can't change the registry default as you suggested.
Is there a setting in Windows that controls font substitution?
:
If your subform is in Form view or Continuous view, open it in design
view,
and set the FontName of the controls.
If it is in Datasheet view, go to:
Tools | Options | Datasheet
and set the Default Font.
Some recent versions of Access may not show any fonts in that menu
option
if
you have too many fonts installed. If that happens, either dump some
fonts
and restart the computer, or use RegEdit to set the value under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[your version
number]\Access\Settings
The desired entries are:
Default Font Name = the name of the font you want
Default Font Size = the point size you want (e.g. 10)
message
I have a form where all of the fields have the font set to Tahoma 8.
When I
display it in form view, the font in some of the sub form fields
changes
to
symbols.
Any ideas what could cause this?
Allen Browne said:Then I'll bet that the subform is in Datasheet view.
For datasheet view, Access uses the font defined by the reg entry we
discussed earlier in the thread for Datasheet view, and the reg entry is
bad.
--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.
message
The font we are using is Tahoma 8 point and it is already installed on the
machine. We had the same problem on another work station on the original
install with MS San Seriff. When we reformatted all of the forms to
Tahoma,
it worked.
The strange part about this is that the font works fine in the main form.
It
is only the sub form that is substituting.
Thanks for the help
Allen Browne said:Is it possible that you have developed using a font that is not on the
user's system? That issue won't occur for the basic Windows fonts such as
MS
Sans Serif, Arial, Times New Roman, but if the font you used is not on
the
user's system then it will substitute.
(BTW, you can name a font as part of the runtime, but IME this does not
work
very well: it complains the font is already there if the user has to
reinstall.)
Windows does have a font substitution (e.g. in Win.ini for Win98), but I
doubt that's what is going on.
message
The problem occurs on a work station that has a runtime version of the
database on it. I checked the number of fonts and should not be a
problem.
It
appears that Windows XP Professional is substituting the font in the
sub
form. I deleted the font that was showing up and it displayed a
different
one.
Since it is a runtime version and I don't have Access installed on this
machine, I can't change the registry default as you suggested.
Is there a setting in Windows that controls font substitution?
:
If your subform is in Form view or Continuous view, open it in design
view,
and set the FontName of the controls.
If it is in Datasheet view, go to:
Tools | Options | Datasheet
and set the Default Font.
Some recent versions of Access may not show any fonts in that menu
option
if
you have too many fonts installed. If that happens, either dump some
fonts
and restart the computer, or use RegEdit to set the value under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\[your version
number]\Access\Settings
The desired entries are:
Default Font Name = the name of the font you want
Default Font Size = the point size you want (e.g. 10)
message
I have a form where all of the fields have the font set to Tahoma 8.
When I
display it in form view, the font in some of the sub form fields
changes
to
symbols.
Any ideas what could cause this?
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