Word Templates differ on different machines

Is a substitute font being used on those machines? In your style definitions, have you indicated the font to be used for each style, or, if a style indicates that it is the "normal" paragraph style + additional parameters, have you defined the "normal" paragraph style within your template?

The way Word works with styles:

If the user redefines a style within the document, Word will use that definition.

If the selected style is not defined within the document, Word will use the definition in the attached template.

If the selected style is not defined within the attached template, Word will use the definition in the normal.dot, which resides on every workstation, but is unique to that workstation.

Sooooo, if you want text to use a certain font, be a certain size, be sure to define styles and apply them to your text.

Colleen

Hi Colleen,

As far as I know the templates are not modified in anyway (style definitions, etc.) from one machine to the next.  I know for sure the users don't touch them.  I'm not that familiar with style definitions.  I know I just set the font name and size, margins, etc.  How do I know if a "substitute" font is being used?  Unfortunately I won't be able to actually check these things until Sunday...

Thank you,
Joe

Well the Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Serif fonts are pretty much a few of the fonts that are standard on all Win32 and NT platfoms. If you are not using one or these then this may be part of the problem. Don't forget a user can set on some video adapters through the Control Panel > Display > Settings > Font size to use larger fonts and this can cause font distortions and wrapping to take place.  



The Crazy One

I from time to time put toghether shareware and somitimes I use fonts I know are not always going to be available. So I put the font file I am going to use in my applications folder. I first check to see if the system has the font I want to use loaded already from its own font list. If the font I am looking for is not loaded then I load the font from my applications folder.

The following is code I wrote many years ago and I don't use it anymore because I have learned to just use fonts that are standard to all Windows systems so the code is a little funky. The first part is probably what will interest more then the rest of the code.

For i = 1 To Screen.FontCount
     GetFontName = Screen.Fonts(i)
     If GetFontName = "Verdana" Then
      DontAddFonts = True
     End If
Next
On Error Resume Next
If Not DontAddFonts Then
     ChDir AppPath
     SetAttr "VERDANA.FFF", 0
     SetAttr "VERDANA.TTT", 0
     If Dir(AppPath & "VERDANA.FFF") <> "VERDANA.FFF" Or Dir(AppPath & "VERDANA.TTT") <> "VERDANA.TTT" Then
          MessageBeep MB_ICONEXCLAMATION
          Msg = AppTitle & " needs the ""VERDANA.FFF"" and ""VERDANA.TTT"" files. One or more of these "
          Msg = Msg & "files are missing. The text in " & AppTitle & " may not display propely "
          Msg = Msg & "with one or both of these files missing."
          Msg = Msg & Chr(13) & Chr(10) & Chr(13) & Chr(10)
          Msg = Msg & "You will need to reinstall " & AppTitle & " to get these files. "
          Msg = Msg & "Before reinstalling you should make a copy of the file "
          Msg = Msg & """GAMESTAT.MDB"" because this file will be over written."
          MsgBox Msg, MB_ICONEXCLAMATION, "Missing File"
     End If
     AddFont1 = AddFontResource("VERDANA.TTT")
     If AddFont1 <> 0 Then SendMsg = SendMessage(WM_FONTCHANGE, HWND_BROADCAST, 0, 0)
     If AddFont1 = 0 Then AddFont2 = AddFontResource("VERDANA.FFF")
     If AddFont2 <> 0 Then SendMsg = SendMessage(WM_FONTCHANGE, HWND_BROADCAST, 0, 0)
     SetAttr "VERDANA.FFF", 34
     SetAttr "VERDANA.TTT", 34

End If

Of course when done useing the add font resource it should be removed

RemoveFontResource(AppDir & "Verdana.FFF")
RemoveFontResource(AppDir & "Verdana.TTT")

Well, the PC has been replaced with a newer one (for other reasons).  I was not able to check the suggestions but you are probably right - either a font substitution or printer driver.

Thank you for the help,
Joe