Fonts Get distorted when printing word 2007 file with excel object embedded

If this is misoperating in a single environment, then you could try the fixes here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541

Thanks for the response.  An additional detail is this is happening in a network and terminal server environment.

I've pinpointed some helpful details.

The distortion occurs when the links are updated.  If I close the file and open the file and click yes on the update links dialog, the charts all change and become distorted (squished or in some cases characters are unevenly spaced).  If I click no on the update link screen, the tables remain perfect.

To fix the distortion I have to double click the spreadsheets to open excel and reselect my font then click save.  That puts everything back without distortion.

But that shouldn't be happening after open > update links, right?

One more update:

When I open the document and update the link I can see Word shrink my copied excel table and that is what causes the font distortion.  If I hit the back button to undo the update link, the table goes back to the size it existed at when originally copied from excel. And all I have to do is double click and hit save in excel and that returns the spreadsheet to proper size.  I don't have to update the font like I wrote above.  My margins are set to narrow in word and it looks like when the spreadsheet gets updated via the link it resizes it as if the margins were wider thus shrinking the table.   But the shrinked table does not have any odd properties -- the height and width are still at 100%.

I found this similar issue but it was from 2009.  Is there a way to determine if Microsoft ever fixed this or developed a workaround?

Linked Object Resizes After Every Update

Yes! Thank you!  When I first followed those instructions on my laptop word and excel couldn't open  my test documents.  I restarted my computer and that wasn't a problem anymore.  

Also, like I said above, this is mostly for an office network.  I need to do this on each workstation including the terminal server, right?

Yes, I believe you would have to do it for each machine (workstation/server) on which you have a copy of word and excel installed.

We are also a cpa firm preparing financial statements with the exact same problem. I tried the fix posted above, but it's still a problem. We use Office 2007 and HP printers.

What I would really like is a report/financial statement writing system that links amounts in the footnotes to an underlying table. This would also format the dollars put into the notes with commas and a currency sign (or whatever). Using excel/word is a pain because of this mystery font problem and the inability of spell checker to check spellilng within embedded excel tables (unless you open each table and spell check one at a time).

So does anyone have a real fix for this problem?

The following is intended as a FYI.  I think you would have better results if you use excel macros/VBA to activate word templates to transfer the balance sheets and other financial statements (not just the footnotes) to MS Word.  This would place the report writer component entirely under the control of Word, and should enable you to eliminate your font and spellcheck problems.  See the link below for a VBA overvew as a starting point:
              http://www.ehow.com/how_6027789_create-word-document-template-vba.html

P.S. the templates I am referring to are mail merge templates.  See the following link:
      http://blogs.msdn.com/b/developingfordynamicsgp/archive/2008/10/30/how-to-use-word-mail-merge-and-macros-to-import-data.aspx

forgot to include the following reference:
      http://intouchdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-use-microsoft-word-mail-merge-to.html