Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel In a blank document (as well as in documents created elsewhere) with Cambria as the default font for Body the following happens: 1) Times New Roman always overrides the default font for normal text immediately when I create a new document. So when I start writing, I write in Times New Roman instead of the default font, i.e. 2) Selecting other fonts does not work (neither from the Formatting Palette, nor from anywhere else) - the font for typing always goes back to Times New Roman immediately (I even tried disabling Times New Roman in Font Book - without success).

The only way I am able to actually change font for text is to type something in Times New Roman, then select what I typed and change the font manually for the selection. However, even when I do that and continue writing on the same line, the font immediately goes back to Times New Roman.

I am sure this must be a bug in the recent version or something caused by incompatibility with Snow Leopard. I would appreciate any help I can get. Michae.@officeformac.com 22/9/2009, 14:16 น. It sounds like you're another victim of what appears to be a Snow Leopard font scramble. Fortunately you're already familiar with Font Book, so quit everything else & crank it up. Run its Resolve Duplicates & Validate Fonts routines then shut down your Mac - not a restart.

Wait about 1-2 minutes and see if the situation improves once you start up again. If no, it may be necessary to manually clear the font caches so post back with your results if you need direction on that. HTH :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 9/22/09 5:58 PM, in article 59b7d040.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, Michal.@officeformac.com 22/9/2009, 22:35 น. Hello Michal; Did you also do the full shut down & start up? If not, that may be all you need to do. If that doesn't resolve it the next step is to Quit all applications & go into: User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008 and delete the files named: Office Font Cache (12) Word Font Substitutes Then do a cold restart & see how it goes (it will probably take a little longer for Word to start up the first time you launch it). HTH :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 9/23/09 1:35 AM, in article 59b7d040.3@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, KIFF 1/10/2009, 9:53 น.

I would like to bump this question as it hasn't been resolved yet. I still can't select any other font than Times New Roman from any of the text formatting menus. I have reinstalled Office several times and tried to resolve any font related issues. I have OpenOffice and iWork installed on the same computer and both work flawlessly. It begins to look as if the only real solution will be to install virtual machine software on the Mac and run Office 2007 under Windows. Rob Schneider 3/10/2009, 0:41 น. You say you changed in all the text formatting menus.

To give me some info, do the following: 1. Menu: View/Draft 2. Menu: Word/Preferences, button: View, Set in Window section 'style width area to be 3cm' 3. In document type in some text. In the style width area (to left of text), see what style name that text going in as. Menu: Format/Style./.

For that style in No. 3 above, Modify the font to something else, e.g. Arial Black or something obvious (using the Modify Button). Apply that font. Since in draft view, won't see results. So Menu: View/Print Layout and see if font is as you expect.rms wrote: I would like to bump this question as it hasn't been resolved yet.

I still can't select any other font than Times New Roman from any of the text formatting menus. I have reinstalled Office several times and tried to resolve any font related issues. I have OpenOffice and iWork installed on the same computer and both work flawlessly. It begins to look as if the only real solution will be to install virtual machine software on the Mac and run Office 2007 under Windows. CyberTaz 3/10/2009, 10:14 น.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you but it's been a hectic week. First of all, though, stop reinstalling Office:-) As you've found, that does absolutely nothing to resolve an issue of this nature (and most others) & you also have to reapply the updates each time. Even when reinstalling is called for it's totally ineffective unless you runt the Remove Office utility first. Otherwise the files that are responsible never get touched. In reviewing the conversation I see no reference to a couple of other possible culprits. We went directly to the Font concerns but apparently were misled by the symptoms.

Let's have a go at this: Quit all Office apps, then go to; User/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates Remove or rename the file: Normal.dotm Also, go to; User/Library/Preferences remove the file: com.microsoft.Word.plist Shut down your Mac then launch Word once you restart. It will take a moment longer than normal to launch the first time as Word rebuilds those 2 files. Let us know how you make out. HTH :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 10/3/09 3:05 AM, in article 59b7d040.9@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, Michal.@officeformac.com 3/10/2009, 11:11 น. Thank you for your continued effort, Bob.

I appreciate it.:-) Okay, I will stop reinstalling - it's a bad habit I acquired on my PC's. However, I have run the 'Remove Office' utility each time. As for your new recommendations, unfortunately there has been no change, nor sign of improvement after applying them. There are no files whatsoever in User Templates directory by the way. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you but it's been a hectic week. First of all, though, stop reinstalling Office:-) As you've found, that does absolutely nothing to resolve an issue of this nature (and most others) & you also have to reapply the updates each time.

Even when reinstalling is called for it's totally ineffective unless you runt the Remove Office utility first. Otherwise the files that are responsible never get touched. Hama cs-461 drivers for mac os. In reviewing the conversation I see no reference to a couple of other possible culprits. We went directly to the Font concerns but apparently were misled by the symptoms. Let's have a go at this: Quit all Office apps, then go to; User/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates Remove or rename the file: Normal.dotm Also, go to; User/Library/Preferences remove the file: com.microsoft.Word.plist Shut down your Mac then launch Word once you restart. It will take a moment longer than normal to launch the first time as Word rebuilds those 2 files. Let us know how you make out.

HTH :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac Tomasz 3/10/2009, 12:48 น. Sorry to contradict you but what you've written is not even a related problem, let alone the same one. This thread is relevant to a font change issue & has absolutely nothing to do with Language or Reference Tools. If you'd care to submit a NEW message stating all particulars pertaining to the problem I'm sure someone will be glad to help you with it.

Make sure to include a complete detailed description & be certain to indicate: Exact version of Word/Office, Exact version of OS X, Is this happening in all documents or just one in particular? Regards :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 10/3/09 3:48 PM, in article, 'Tomasz' CyberTaz 3/10/2009, 13:22 น. I don't mean to be argumentative - I know what it's like when someone tells you that what you're experiencing 'isn't possible' or 'can't be happening' - but there has to be a Normal.dotm & that's where it would have to be. Word won't launch without one. If it doesn't find a Normal.dotm on launch it will create a new one in that location.

Do a Spotlight search for Normal.dotm but you should find it in the folder I specified: User/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates If there truly isn't one to be found we have a serious mystery on our hands & Word must be finding another Normal somewhere. That may be the problem, so let me know what your Spotlight search turns up. If you have other files by the name of Normal or Normal.dotm they will probably have to go. Regards :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 10/3/09 2:11 PM, in article 59b7d040.13@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, Michal.@officeformac.com 3/10/2009, 22:02 น. I think I have come to the core of the problem. Two points I want to make: First, yes, you were right, there was a Normal.dotm template and though Spotlight didn't find it, I have. And second, although Tomasz' post to this thread was not really constructive, it pointed me in the right direction as I accidentally ran across a font whose name ended in 'CE' (for Central Europe) - and switching to it actually worked.

So I tried changing language preferences to English as well as date and currency formats to the U.S. Ones, however, without effect. But then I changed keyboard layout to U.S. International and that allowed me to select any of the fonts and write with them as intended. Now my question is - is there any way of being able to use Czech keyboard AND use other fonts than the ones whose names end in 'CE' and Times New Roman?:-) I don't mean to be argumentative - I know what it's like when someone tells you that what you're experiencing 'isn't possible' or 'can't be happening' - but there has to be a Normal.dotm & that's where it would have to be.

Word won't launch without one. If it doesn't find a Normal.dotm on launch it will create a new one in that location. Do a Spotlight search for Normal.dotm but you should find it in the folder I specified: User/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates If there truly isn't one to be found we have a serious mystery on our hands & Word must be finding another Normal somewhere. That may be the problemso let me know what your Spotlight search turns up. If you have other files by the name of Normal or Normal.dotm they will probably have to go.

Regards :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac CyberTaz 4/10/2009, 6:08 น. I'm glad you were able to sort it out that specific combination of ingredients isn't one we run across every day but it does explain things.

It also dovetails to the question you now have. The best answer I can give you is 'It's a guessing game unless you know your fonts intimately.' This isn't one of my strongest areas so take what I'm writing with a grain of salt, but I believe that the issue revolves around whether the font you try to use contains the necessary characters for the keyboard/language being used at the time not all fonts contain every conceivable glyph & most older fonts are quite limited.

Regards :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac On 10/4/09 1:02 AM, in article 59b7d040.18@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, Michal.@officeformac.com 4/10/2009, 6:27 น. The fonts in themselves are fine (i.e. They contain all the necessary characters and work flawlessly in other similar applications) - plus, I can use Czech keyboard to write a line of Times New Roman text in Word and then change it into any font I have installed on my system and it will work (i.e. Display all characters correctly). But, I cannot select a font and then write a line using that font unless it's one or two of the legacy fonts that still use the age-old 'CE' nomenclature. The other option is to change my keyboard layout to US which, understandably, prevents me from using crucial diacritics.

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Since Word (and Office for Mac) is the only application that, to my knowledge, has this problem, I would consider it either a bug or an outright lack of support for the European languages in question - which puts us back to early 1980s.:-/ I think it's time I opened a new query here describing this specific problem. I'm glad you were able to sort it out that specific combination of ingredients isn't one we run across every day but it does explain things. It also dovetails to the question you now have. The best answer I can give you is 'It's a guessing game unless you know your fonts intimately.' This isn't one of my strongest areas so take what I'm writing with a grain of salt, but I believe that the issue revolves around whether the font you try to use contains the necessary characters for the keyboard/language being used at the time not all fonts contain every conceivable glyph & most older fonts are quite limited. Regards :) Bob Jones MVP Office:Mac Michal.@officeformac.com 6/10/2009, 23:13 น. Yes, it is now a 'Confirmed Bug' in some of the non-English flavours of Word.

Turning off 'Match font with keyboard' will fix it. I have suggested to Microsoft that 'removing' the Match Font with Keyboard function would be a great step forward.

It's just another of those 'automatically screw up your document' mis-features that could usefully be removed from the product. Along with embedding people's email addresses in the document when you type their name, and inventing styles out of thin air if your selection is less than precise. Cheers On 22/10/09 3:05 AM, in article, 'Potomac' wrote: This email is my business email - Please do not email me about forum matters unless you intend to pay! - John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word), Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia. Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410 +61 4 1209 1410, mailto.

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