Microsoft Word - Times New Roman will not print from my iMac. People send me Word documents, I must select all and choose another font. How can I fix this?

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Microsoft Word - Times New Roman will not print from my iMac. People send me Word documents, I must select all and choose another font. How can I fix this?

When anyone sends me a Word document via email as an attachment and I attempt to print it out, my printer always spits out a blank page. All Word documents seem to arrive using Times New Roman font. I must then return to the document, select all, reassign a different font, and it then prints okay. How can I fix this? It appears that Times New Roman font is part of my Font Book, and each version of the font (Italic, etc.) appears there in duplicate.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 16, 2011 6:05 PM

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TildeBee

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May 16, 2011 6:51 PM in response to harpnut

harpnt

Open the Font Book again, select the Times New Roman font set.

You'll see the duplicate warning. Select the fonts and go up to the EDIT menu,

and go down to RESOLVE DUPLICATES.

You might check for other duplicates while you're there, and resolve them.

RESTART your Mac to have the changes take effect.

Then try your docs again.

Any better.

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harpnut Author

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May 17, 2011 3:41 AM in response to TildeBee

I'm reluctant to do as you advised. My Times New Roman does not show up as a "duplicate", even though each version of the font appears twice when I look at Times New Roman in Font Book. Many other fonts do show up as duplicates. Once before I tried "cleaning up" my font book and lost fonts because they are used in different forms in different areas of the computer (an earlier OSX version)? Can I safely do as you advised?

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Tom Gewecke

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May 17, 2011 6:28 AM in response to harpnut

You might also want to search/ask in the forum devoted entire to Word by the people who make it:

http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Word/

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