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Henry
Folks:
Here's the story of a problem that I fixed... but I don't understand how.
MacOS X 10.2.6, Word X fully updated.
I need to have full size forms in one portion of my Word X document, and
smaller illustrations of those forms. My solution: Copy the text of the
forms, use Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture, then scale and add borders as
required for illustrative purposes.
This solution worked perfectly... for a while.
What's changed recently: I had a MacOS X problem that required creating
and working in a new account. So I'm working with new (near-default) Word
preferences and a different font configuration.
The source material is still rendered perfectly, and I can see (viewed with
Finder Edit-->Show Clipboard) that the copy is done correctly. If I do a
normal paste into a new Word document, the result is identical
But with the new account, Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture apparently modifies
the data: the fonts are messed up. Some text that is clearly in Times in
the source now appear in some unknown san-serif typeface. Checkbox
characters (Zapf Dingbats) before many lines are turned into 'q' characters.
Yes, I got the checkbox by switching to Zapf Dingbats and hitting the 'q'
key.
None of these SHOULD have any effect, since the source is intact and is
rendered as before.
OK, so I fixed problem this by copying
...users/olduser/library/preferences/microsoft"
folder to
...users/newuser/library/preferences/microsoft
Now the fonts aren't converted by Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture.
There appears to be an option somewhere in the Word preferences with a
default setting, "change the user's font when converting from text to a
picture" but I cannot find it.
So what did I actually do that fixed this issue?
Thanks,
Henry
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Here's the story of a problem that I fixed... but I don't understand how.
MacOS X 10.2.6, Word X fully updated.
I need to have full size forms in one portion of my Word X document, and
smaller illustrations of those forms. My solution: Copy the text of the
forms, use Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture, then scale and add borders as
required for illustrative purposes.
This solution worked perfectly... for a while.
What's changed recently: I had a MacOS X problem that required creating
and working in a new account. So I'm working with new (near-default) Word
preferences and a different font configuration.
The source material is still rendered perfectly, and I can see (viewed with
Finder Edit-->Show Clipboard) that the copy is done correctly. If I do a
normal paste into a new Word document, the result is identical
But with the new account, Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture apparently modifies
the data: the fonts are messed up. Some text that is clearly in Times in
the source now appear in some unknown san-serif typeface. Checkbox
characters (Zapf Dingbats) before many lines are turned into 'q' characters.
Yes, I got the checkbox by switching to Zapf Dingbats and hitting the 'q'
key.
None of these SHOULD have any effect, since the source is intact and is
rendered as before.
OK, so I fixed problem this by copying
...users/olduser/library/preferences/microsoft"
folder to
...users/newuser/library/preferences/microsoft
Now the fonts aren't converted by Edit-->Paste Special-->Picture.
There appears to be an option somewhere in the Word preferences with a
default setting, "change the user's font when converting from text to a
picture" but I cannot find it.
So what did I actually do that fixed this issue?
Thanks,
Henry
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