Default Font

[Greg's News]

When I try to set a default font under Tools/Options/Datasheet, I click the
default font down arrow but no fonts appear. Why and then how do I set the
dfault font. TIA

Greg

 

[Mike Labosh]

When I try to set a default font under Tools/Options/Datasheet, I click

the
default font down arrow but no fonts appear. Why and then how do I set the
dfault font. TIA

That was happening to me too. I fixed it in the registry.

1. Click Start -> Run
2. type REGEDIT and click OK
3. Navigate to this key (the version number depends on what version you have
Access 2000 is version 9.0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Access\Settings

4. In the list of Values, there is one called "Default Font Name" Double
click it and type the name of a font that you have, such as Tahoma.

5. Close Regedit.
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Peace & happy computing,

Mike Labosh, MCSD

"It's 4:30 am. Do you know where your stack pointer is?"

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Cause may be too many fonts loaded into your Fonts folder. When you exceed
the "size" limitation for ACCES, the fonts disappear from the dropdown list.Try deleting one font at a time and check the dropdown list. When you've
deleted the "magic" last one, the list will suddenly reappear!

See this article for more info.....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;276515

 

[Greg's News]

Mike and Ken, thank you for your replies. I will give each a try.

Greg
Cause may be too many fonts loaded into your Fonts folder. When you exceed
the "size" limitation for ACCES, the fonts disappear from the dropdown list.Try deleting one font at a time and check the dropdown list. When you've
deleted the "magic" last one, the list will suddenly reappear!

See this article for more info.....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;276515

 

[Greg's News]

Ken, I have 1299 fonts loaded and I tried to delete some, but I got the
message, "Can't delete because they may be read only or in use by another
application". I checked the properties and they are not read only". Is ther
something I'm miisng here. TIA

Greg
Cause may be too many fonts loaded into your Fonts folder. When you exceed
the "size" limitation for ACCES, the fonts disappear from the dropdown list.Try deleting one font at a time and check the dropdown list. When you've
deleted the "magic" last one, the list will suddenly reappear!

See this article for more info.....

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;276515

 

[Greg's News]

Mike, did as you said and changed the default font value to Arial, but I
couldn't save it. There is no save function in the registry????

Greg

When I try to set a default font under Tools/Options/Datasheet, I click
the
default font down arrow but no fonts appear. Why and then how do I set the
dfault font. TIA

That was happening to me too. I fixed it in the registry.

1. Click Start -> Run
2. type REGEDIT and click OK
3. Navigate to this key (the version number depends on what version you have
Access 2000 is version 9.0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Access\Settings

4. In the list of Values, there is one called "Default Font Name" Double
click it and type the name of a font that you have, such as Tahoma.

5. Close Regedit.
--
Peace & happy computing,

Mike Labosh, MCSD

"It's 4:30 am. Do you know where your stack pointer is?"

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Be sure that all applications are shut down when you try this. No Word,
Excel, nothing open -- just windows. And don't try to delete the ones that
Windows uses (Tahoma, etc.).

Go for the ones that are "outliers" for ones you typically use. 1299 is a
lot of fonts.