Suzanne,
It appears that the font is installed and that the problem is consistently
italic words. I downloaded Office 7 beta and used the "style change" to
formal and the words appeared again!

However, I still do not understand
what is happening. Almost all my previous saved documents with italics do not
appear.
Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
Look in the Windows Fonts folder and make sure that the italic variant of
the font you're using is still installed.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Grant said:
JoAnn, the words are radom but especially italic words as in refering to a
book do not appear.
:
That's a really weird problem. Is it certain words or completely random?
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
JoAnn, There is a global problem with all my Word documents.
Usually
it is
only a few words that do not appear in a document. When I hit "Format,
font,"
I can see the words in "Preview" but there is no "check" mark beside
"hidden."
:
Are those words hidden by chance? Highlight those disappearing
words
and
check Format - Font. See if there is a check beside hidden.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
When I open a Word 2003 document over the network from another
computer,
some
words in the document are not visible, especially italic words.