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From: Biocellguy on 4 Jul 2008 10:58 The computer I use at work is on Office 2000 and at home is Office 2003. I created an equation so letters will be superimposed with a circle on my work computer in my Word document. My home computer incorrectly assigns the circle with a different font/symbol. When I open (as I saw in another person's post) Tools|Options|Compatibility|Font substitution I see Corbel is substituted with Trebuchet MS, and WP MathA is substituted with Symbol. When I changed WP MathA to be substituted with a different font, the symbol that should be a circle changes to something else. Do you know how to bring the circle back without having to compare my computer with that at my works (I am working from home this weekend)? Have a great Independence Day and thank you.
From: Bob Mathews on 4 Jul 2008 12:02 Biocell, you didn't say how you're creating the equation, but my assumption is that you're using Equation Editor. If that's not the case, write back with more details; perhaps there's another answer. Word's Font Substitution doesn't have any effect on equations created with Equation Editor. It has its own font settings, accessible through the Style > Define dialog. Once this dialog is open, set the styles to anything you want (presumably a font that matches your document), but these 3 styles must remain set to Symbol font: LCGreek, UCGreek, and Symbol. I suspect Symbol style in your document is set to a font other than Symbol -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor On 4-Jul-2008, Biocellguy wrote: > The computer I use at work is on Office 2000 and at home > is Office 2003. I created an equation so letters will be > superimposed with a circle on my work computer in my > Word document. My home computer incorrectly assigns > the circle with a different font/symbol. When I open (as I > saw in another person's post) Tools|Options|Compatibility| > Font substitution I see Corbel is substituted with Trebuchet > MS, and WP MathA is substituted with Symbol. When I > changed WP MathA to be substituted with a different font, > the symbol that should be a circle changes to something > else. Do you know how to bring the circle back without > having to compare my computer with that at my works (I > am working from home this weekend)?
From: PamC via OfficeKB.com on 4 Jul 2008 15:07 WP MathA is, I believe, a Word Perfect font. The font layout in WP's MathA font is different from Microsoft's Symbol font; that is, the numeric values of MathA are different from those for Symbol. ----To take a totally **made up** example: the circle is at , say, 255 in one font and at, say, 123 in the other). ---- I'm not sure that Word can make that kind of substitution. Your solution is to have the required font on both machines. Note that if you are delivering editable Word files and equations, the receiver will have a problem like yours. Longer term, you might want to switch to using Unicode (or the ISO Universal Character Set). All of Mocrosoft's recent fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, etc. ) are Unicode but the ones with the most characters are Arial Unicode and Cambria Math, which has the math and science characters but not so many world alphabets. Both are free. Cambria Math comes in the Compatibility Pack that allows W2000-2003 to read W2007 files. HTH, PamC Biocellguy wrote: >The computer I use at work is on Office 2000 and at home is Office 2003. I >created an equation so letters will be superimposed with a circle on my work >computer in my Word document. My home computer incorrectly assigns the >circle with a different font/symbol. When I open (as I saw in another >person's post) Tools|Options|Compatibility|Font substitution I see Corbel is >substituted with Trebuchet MS, and WP MathA is substituted with Symbol. When >I changed WP MathA to be substituted with a different font, the symbol that >should be a circle changes to something else. Do you know how to bring the >circle back without having to compare my computer with that at my works (I am >working from home this weekend)? > >Have a great Independence Day and thank you. -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/word-docmanagement/200807/1
From: Biocellguy on 31 Jul 2008 13:06 Is it possible to add the specific symbol file to the word document? This idea would be like adding fonts to Adobe Acrobat.
From: grammatim on 31 Jul 2008 19:01
Files live in the Fonts folder in Windows (not in Word at all), so you just need to be sure that all the computers you're sending your Word file to have the fonts you used installed on them. Since the one you need seems to be Cambria Math, and that's part of the free download of the Compatibility Pack, you should be in good shape. On Jul 31, 1:06 pm, Biocellguy <Biocell...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Is it possible to add the specific symbol file to the word document? This > idea would be like adding fonts to Adobe Acrobat. |