Turning off insertion of TNRoman or Arial (i.e. euro symbol) into other fonts??

[Netguy]

Does anyone know how to turn off the feature of inserting a character (for
example, the euro symbol) from Times New Roman or Arial into a font that
doesn't have this feature in Word XP?

I find it rather annoying when using another font and I make a typo, or
simply to check if a font in question has a extended character/symbol, Word
automatically inserting Arial or TNR into another font won't automatically
give me that information.

Thanks,
Netguy

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Netguy,

No, I don't know how to stop Word from substituting fonts, unless
Tools/Options/Compatibility will let you do that (but Font Substitution
usually is only available when a substitution has been made for a font not
installed on the machine).

But in order to check what symbols a font contains in its character set, you
can go to Insert/Symbol and type the font name into the combobox. That should
pull up the characters it contains into the grid.

Does anyone know how to turn off the feature of inserting a character (for
example, the euro symbol) from Times New Roman or Arial into a font that
doesn't have this feature in Word XP?

I find it rather annoying when using another font and I make a typo, or
simply to check if a font in question has a extended character/symbol, Word
automatically inserting Arial or TNR into another font won't automatically
give me that information.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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