Thai Font issue with office 2011

That's not true. I've been using MS office for mac since 2011 and there was no problem with Thai until I upgrade mac to OS Sierra, then the only Thai font it keeps going back to default name "Krungthep" even when I set default font to Arial. At times, it displays correct alphabets thought going back to Krungthep font all the times, and once in a while it turns everything to small boxes.

Yotsiri wrote:

That's not true. I've been using MS office for mac since 2011 and there was no problem

That's great, but Thai was never supported officially, so it was just luck really. Also the Arial font does not contain any Thai characters, so some other font has to be used.

I suggest you move to Word 2016 where I believe Thai is supported, including the standard MS font for it.

Arial font contains Thai characters, as I've been using it for a very long time. What appears when I use Arial as default font on the MS Word when upgrade to OS Sierra (which as a matter of fact requires reinstall of the MS Office), the font in Arial first appear correctly, then changed to boxes... Sometimes, it changes first to Krungthep font, which I've never heard or used before, and then boxes again, which was very odd.

Arial font contains Thai characters, as I've been using it for a very long time. What appears when I use Arial as default font on the MS Word when upgrade to OS Sierra (which as a matter of fact requires reinstall of the MS Office), the font in Arial first appear correctly, then changed to boxes... Sometimes, it changes first to Krungthep font, which I've never heard or used before, and then boxes again, which was very odd.

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Yotsiri wrote:

Arial font contains Thai characters

Go to Applications > Font Book. Select Arial. Do View > Repertoire. Do you see any Thai? Do View > Show Font Info. Do you see the list after Scripts? Is Thai there? If your answers are Yes, what is the font version number? I have 5.01.2 and it has no Thai. Perhaps mine is old?

In any case, the best place to get help with MS stuff like this is

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac

But I still think the best fix for your problems is to upgrade to Word 2016, which actually does support Thai. Nobody is going to fix anything in 2011 any more.

Yotsiri wrote:

it changes first to Krungthep font, which I've never heard or used before

Krungthep is one of the standard Thai fonts long provided by Apple with MacOS. Others are Ayuthaya, Sathu, Silom, Sukhumvit Set, and Thonburi. Fonts often present which have multiple scripts including Thai are Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, and Arial Unicode MS.

The best place to ask about problems with MS stuff is usually the forums run by th people who make it

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

MS Office for Mac does not officially even support Thai.

I was having the same problem, lacking Thai fonts. Even when I converted PDF files to Word, Thai characters displayed as squares. I cannot vouch for the safety of this procedure, and am leery of third-party sites offering free anything, but I needed Thai fonts. So use at your discretion. It worked for me.

I closed Word, then went to http://www.mediafire.com/download/qahbdqstlbvcjq3/page0_14.zip

and downloaded and expanded the Zip file. I opened the Mac Font Book application, then to File > Add fonts. I downloaded the fonts and installed them into Font Book. When I re-started Word, the Thai characters displayed correctly.

MacBook Pro, Yosemite 10.10, Office for Mac 2011.

Thanks Philip,

That worked for me. Thanks for taking the time to offer a solution.

Tried it just now for a friend who was having a problem on a new MacBook with Word 2011 for Mac... The fix does work... Thanks Phillip from Chiang Mai... You rock the BIG HOUSE with that Thai font fix!! I was thinkN that the friend would have to scrap plans to use Word and go with Pages, which I am guessing is more foreign language font friendly, right from the GIT_GO... but that is not really a good solution as the friend is already semi-familiar with Word and wanted to use that app rather than Pages...

Bangkok_Bruce wrote:

I was thinkN that the friend would have to scrap plans to use Word and go with Pages, which I am guessing is more foreign language font friendly, right from the GIT_GO

Just about every other app I know of is more foreign language friendly than Word for Mac. Have the look at the limited number of keyboards which Word officially supports, and consider all those for middle eastern, indic, and s.e. asian scripts including Thai which are absent. Even though you may get a font to display, there may well be other bugs which make it advisable to use something else for your work.

Superb! thanks a lot for sharing. 🙂➕✅

Thanks a lot, Philip. 🙂

Your solution works perfectly.