Font Book is selecting random fonts in word and pages

When I try to click a font for example, Times, it changes to a completely random one in pages or word. I downloaded new fonts but now i cannot change it back. Please help!

Hi Fitzy564! Welcome to the AppleWorks forum, a forum dedicated to the application AppleWorks. Your question would be better answered in Pages forum or MacOs 10.5 forum on this site. It would also help if you would describe the problem in more detail, like when did this start, have you done some maintenance late on the computer, new installed third applications, what does really happen when you choose a font etc. .

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And you are quite persistent, Menu Boy, in offering pernickety and pointless prattle, in response to a "support page" on iPad's buggy Pages App.
Let's summarise, for those reviewing this threadless thread for app support..
Mobile pages works reliably for simple docs, especially creating letters and Menus for Microsoft's Kindy canteen (even on special days with nice big pictures).
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So, Menu Boy, do they let you sneak into classes every now and then? What is the secret to their training? "Say after me, if any I.T. product works just some of the time, that's a job well done, and if something randomly stops working, we call that the user's fault... And if they complain, we call them names."

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Different font between Word and Help file

Hi,
I have a Word file in Arial 10, and the help file created
with RH (WinHelp 4) appears in Times New Roman 9 (or so). What is
wrong ?
Thanks for your help,
Sorrindo

Someone else reported just a couple of days ago that the
patch had not worked for them and cited another Microsoft patch as
causing the problem. Search back and see if removing that patch
fixes things. If it does, check with your IT people they are happy
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When I type a document and decide to italicise a couple of separate words throughout the document how can I select them at once? Pressing Shift selects all the words between the first and the second, that does not help me. In Pages 09 it worked with either cmd or ctrl or alt (I don't remember which, but one of them worked) but I tried all of them now and nothing happens.
Can anyone help me?
Thank you!

You can't do it anymore. Pages 5 is a stripped application and has lost about 90 feature that Pages 09 has. Read more about it in other threads in this forum.

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It depends on what layout they have in common and possibly in your case whether a font was substituted.
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8987900#8987900
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When I create a document with Pages ... how do I save it in Icloud in both the Pages format and Word format?

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That information prints outside of the live area. (Along with the other options listed - crop marks, bleed marks, registration marks, color bars)
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Tom,
In the end, I installed Alfresco on our mac mini server and imported all the files into that. There are a few rough edges but it has good integration with MS Office (looks like a SharePoint server) and offers web access to remote workers. I managed to use Open Directory for user and group accounts so no additional users to set up.
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Peter

Why does my Mac auto-select the next few words or even sentences after i select and delete a batch of text?

For instance, if i were to select the next seven words and then over-write or delete them, the next few words would automatically become selected and, because i'm already typing, i would over-write them as well. The more words that i initially select, the more words become selected after i hit delete. You can imagine how annoying this might be when i decide to chuck an entire paragraph, select it, begin to over-write, and then realise that i've just over-written most of the next paragraph and part of the previous.
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Firefox allows to select part of a word. You can select a word with a double click and use Shift + left click to set the end of the selection, so you need to click at the end of the last word instead of in it.

Diff page count from Word to Pages?

Hi,
I just imported a text, I had originally written in MS Word, into Pages.
I'm just wondering why the document went from 31 pages in Word to 26 in Pages?
I checked everything and as far as I can tell, the fonts, sizes, spaces and page setup have all the same configurations.
So I don't get why I have fewer pages?
If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
Thanks

Although the font name & size may be the same, they may not be from the same foundry & will display differently. And if the Word document came from a PC, the difference can be even greater. But I think there is just a difference between Word/Microsoft programs & other programs. I have noticed the same issues between a Word document on my Mac & the same document opened in Pages or AppleWorks. Pages & AppleWorks are consistent, Word is not. And I make sure the font, size etc. is the same.

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We receive all of our documents from clients created in WORD (not the 2008 version). When we open these document in Pages, tables that are very detailed- that is, they have many rows and columns are not converted accurately. Column lines tend to be missing and Pages has a difficult time redrawing them. Is there a supplemental program that would assist Pages with the translation of tables?

The answer is "no." There is no supplemental program.
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Many thanks

Not really sure what your question has to do with compatibility issues between Mac OS and Windows...the focus of this forum, but you can find your answer here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2291

Font Book is selecting random fonts in word and pages

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