If my default printer is not what it was or there is no printer installed as well as the printer being offline, I've seen this happen.
Word, Excel, and such, right or wrong then reformats the document to reflect the new printer capabilities. If there is no printer, then you get such wild changes.
Bob
Last night, I created the document using MS-WORD 97 running on Windows-ME and saved it without problem.
This morning its font (Courier New) has changed to another font!!
And then I checked the pull-down font list and found Courier and some major Westerm fonts have gone from the list. This phenomenon was also found in EXCEL 97.
I verified the original font files of these missing fonts existed in \Windows\Fonts folder.
Do you have any idea to retrieve the original font list to MS-WORD and EXCEL?

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