From: dwolff@cozy.Prime.COM (David Wolff)
Subject: Re: Word 5.0 default font problem?
Organization: Computervision
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:57:54 GMT

I wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been having a problem with Word 5.0 and default fonts.  I set the
> overall default font to Times;  now, documents that are in other fonts
> such as Palatino frequently appear as Times instead.  Any ideas as to
> where the problem is?
>
> Please send me e-mail and I'll summarize to the net.

And the summary is...  this is a known 5.0 bug.  Fixes are the 5.0a
updater or the 5.1 upgrade.  The 5.0a update is supposedly available at
sumex or michigan, and from Microsoft (I haven't verified these;  I'm
ordering the 5.1 upgrade).

This might also happen if you open files after changing the overall default,
but that wasn't my problem;  it was changing the font in a document and
having Word helpfully change it back to the default...

Thanks to the following for answering:

    irwin@galton.uchicago.edu (Mark Irwin)

    Sigma Ed <eyee@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

    Tom Kent <kent@centauri.dmc.com> adds that moving Word files between
machines with different systems or pref files can cause font problems:
"The Word 5.0a updater corrects this problem; so does Word 5.1. If you
solve the problem with 5.1, make sure you get the 5.1a patcher, which
corrects a bug in saving files with headers and footers. Jeez, Microsoft,
get with the program..."

    Microsoft Itself replied!

> From: dpearce@microsoft.COM
> Organization: Microsoft PSS - The Voice of the Customer
>
> You've encountered a bug that we caught in Word 5.0. We created
> a patcher to fix the problem. It is available via the InterNet
> by anonymous FTP at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. It is in the
> /info-mac/app directory, and is named:
>
> msword-50a-updater.hqx      55492   Word 5.0a Updater (Font patcher)
>
> The patcher is also available on disk if you need it. Send me your
> mailing address and I'll send it to you.
>
> Hope that helps!
> David Pearce
>  -Standard Disclaimer Here-

    llurch@leland.stanford.edu adds these further known problems:
> This is an acknowledged bug. The free update to 5.0a (ftp anywhere,
> go to a dealer, or call Microsoft) fixes it.
>
> Other acknowledged bugs they don't tell you about until you find them
> and which are NOT fixed in 5.0a:
>
> Graphics on the first page of a section are misaligned on Postscript
> printers if and only if background printing is on (funny, that).  Not
> fixed with 5.1 or 5.1a either.
>
> Fast Save causes headers, footers, and occasional footnotes to
> disappear.  Do NOT use under any circumstances. Fixed in 5.1a.
>
> Spell and grammar checkers bomb on 68000 machines (fixed with 5.0.1
> update to the plug-ins and in 5.1).
>
> Lines drawn with the Picture module move every time you double-click
> on a picture. No fix in sight.
>
> Text With Layout and Windows metafile converters are not 32-bit
> clean.  Other plug-ins are not guaranteed to be 32-bit clean.  No fix
> in sight.
>
> Just some of the reasons I use Frame on a NeXT.

Thank you all.  For what I do, Word is (usually) fast, powerful, and
relatively bug-free, so I intend to stick with it.

David Wolff

dwolff@RES-C4.Prime.COM

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