missing font names - single letters for font names in ms word

My system got infected and after cleaning out the virus, the font name drop
down listed font names as a, b, c, ...z and defaulted to symbol fonts when i
typed. Fonts in all other applications worked fine. This was true for every
user account on my system. I tried uninstall/reinstall of ms word a few times
and some other suggestions i found on the web, like deleting Normal.dot,
deleting all restore points, etc. Nothing worked. Then, I created a new user
profile (account) on my system. Logged in under that account and ms word
worked fine. So, i think something was hosed in the hidden folder Application
Data under all of the user accounts. I wound up copying my favorites,
documents, etc. to the new profile using windows explorer and then deleted my
old user account. All is working fine, now. Hope this helps someone

Try posting this in a Word newsgroup (this oe is for Publisher).

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"brutus522399" wrote in message
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My system got infected and after cleaning out the virus, the font name
drop
down listed font names as a, b, c, ...z and defaulted to symbol fonts when
i
typed. Fonts in all other applications worked fine. This was true for
every
user account on my system. I tried uninstall/reinstall of ms word a few
times
and some other suggestions i found on the web, like deleting Normal.dot,
deleting all restore points, etc. Nothing worked. Then, I created a new
user
profile (account) on my system. Logged in under that account and ms word
worked fine. So, i think something was hosed in the hidden folder
Application
Data under all of the user accounts. I wound up copying my favorites,
documents, etc. to the new profile using windows explorer and then deleted
my
old user account. All is working fine, now. Hope this helps someone